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as to be taken for a slight variation of it in tlie first hasty 

 examination of this collection. From the character of its 

 seeds it may even be that a fruiting fragment of it fur- 

 nished Dr. Gra}^ with the description which was alluded to 

 under the previous species. The order is much in need of a 

 careful revision. 



JuSTiciA INSOLITA. Suffrutescent, a foot or more high, 

 with many short, stiff, almost spinose, minutely white- 

 tomentose, bi-anches: leaves oblong-ovate to lanceolate, mi- 

 nutelv pubescent or almost glabrous, short-petioled 15-2 • 

 mm. long: flowers sessile, scattered: bracts and bractlets 

 linear-acuminate: calyx 7 mm. long, deeply 4-parted, tin; 

 linear-acuminate segments twice as long as the bractlets: 

 corolla rose-purple, about 20 mm. long, deeply bilabiate, 

 the tube very short and broad, 2-sulcate at base in front, 

 the two deeper posterior ones a little higher; throat ampli- 

 ate rugose-veined; limb deeply bilabiate, 3 or 4 times 

 longer than the tube, the upper lip galeate, emarginate or 

 ver}^ shortly notched, the lower 8-parted into oblong-ovate 

 lobes: stamens inserted in the throat; anthers muriculate 

 on the sides; cells parallel but not even, widely separated 

 by a broad connective; the upper muticous, the lower with 

 a spur of variable length: style filiform; stigma minutely 

 capitate; ovary 4-ovuled: capsule 16-18 mm. long, the 

 sterile portion the longer: seeds fiat, oblique at base, dense- 

 ly covered with retrursely barbed bristles; embryo small in 

 the loose testa; cotyledons oval; radicle short incurved. — 

 San Gregorio. 



Berginia virgata Harv. Agreeing exactly with the de- 

 scription, as far as can be made out, but if the reference is 

 correct, Priivjleofhytmn lanceolatam can hardly be specific- 

 ally distinct. — Purisima. 



DiANTHERA SoNOR^ Watsou ?— Purisima. 



Carlowrightia cordifolia Gray ? — San Julio, Comondu. 



