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var. CONFERTA. Brandies whitish, with clown- 



ward appressed pubescence : leaves ovate-lanceolate, 20-40 

 mm. long, light-green, glabrate, veiny below, more or less 

 upon short petioles: inflorescence of short axillary racemes, 

 sometimes of solitary flowers: bracts and bracteoles foliose 

 oblanceolate, the latter a third longer than the calyx, 

 which is deeply cleft into 5 lanceolate - acuminate, equal 

 lobes: corolla red, 25-35 mm. long, the narrow tube 

 rather inconspicuously appendaged at base, about the 

 length of the bilabiate limb; upper lip very shortly 2-lobed ; 

 the somewhat spreading lower lip rugose-veiny in the throat 

 and divided for one-third its length into oblong lobes: sta- 

 mens adnate to the tube nearly its whole length; anthers 

 oblique, the upper nearly muticous, the lower shortly calca- 

 rate: style filiform; stigma not enlarged; ovules 4; young 

 seeds apparently turgid, smooth. — San Julio Caiion. 



Beloperone hians. Sufi'rutescent, woody at base, with 

 numerous slender branches, pubescent or glabrate: leaves 

 ovate, oval or oblong, acute or obtuse, shortly petiolate: 

 flowers solitary and sessile in the axils : bracts and bracte- 

 oles linear, acute, shorter than the calyx, which is deeply 

 5-parted, 7 mm. long, the linear lobes acute: corolla red, 

 25-35 mm. long; tube funnelform not appendaged, much 

 shorter than the deeply bilabiate limb; upper lip barely 

 emarginate, the lower cleft for more than a third its length 

 into oblong, widely spreading lobes: filaments adnate to 

 the whole length of the tube; upper cell of the anther a 

 third the larger, both very minutely calcarate and widely 

 spreading at base: style filiform; stigma not enlarged; 

 ovary 4-ovuled: capsule clavate-oblong, about 15 mm. long, 

 the sterile base no longer than the upper part and exceeded 

 by the calyx-lobes : seeds flattened, glabrous, coarsely 

 rugose; cocyledons reniform with the short radicle incurved 

 towards the sinus. — Comondu. 



This sjDecies might as well and perhaps better be put into 

 Jnsticia, but it so strongly resembles Beloperone Cali/ornica 



