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DiCLiPTERA RESUPINATA Juss. — Comondu. 

 Lantana Camara L. — Comondu. 

 LiPPiA NODIFLORA Mx. — Sail Gregorio. 

 LippiA Palmeei Watson, — Maodalena Island. 



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LiPPiA (Zapania) barbata. Shrubby: leaves pinnate- 

 veined, crenate, round-ovate, obtuse or a little decurrent 

 upon the short petiole, 15-25 mm. long and broad, rugose- 

 veined, soft pubescent beneath, rough-strigose above : 

 peduncles solitary in the axils, stout, short, much exceeded 

 by the oblong heads: bracts silky pubescent, broadly ovate, 

 all distinct, a little shorter than the white (?) corolla: calyx 

 not half as long as the bracts, formed of two, lateral, navic- 

 ular, acute segments covered with long white hairs, clos- 

 ing over the cohering nutlets and deciduous with them : 

 corolla 7-8 mm. long, bilabiate, the upper lip erect, entire; 

 lower spreading 3-lobed: stamens sessile, nearly equally at- 

 tached high in the tliroat: style short: stigma somewhat 

 2-lobed. 



Described from fragments brought for culinary purposes 

 by a Mexican of Comondu from "La Giganta" a neighbor- 

 ing mountain. 



LiPPiA FASTIGIATA. Shrubby about a foot high, with 

 numerous slender, fascicled, white-tomentose branches: 

 leaves densely tomentose, sessile, cuneate-lanceolate, and 

 broadly crenate above the middle, usually opposite, but 

 sometimes ternate, 10 20 mm. long, 4-6 wide: peduncles 

 solitary, stout, 2-4 times as long as the leaves; heads 

 hemispherical to oblong, few-flowered; bracts ovate, 

 distinct, calyx much exceeding the bracts; densely covered 

 with short white avooI, lobes two, united nearly to the 

 top and truncate: corolla white (?), 5 mm. long, a third 

 longer than the calyx; tube cylindrical; limb bilabiate, the 

 upper lip 2-lobed, the lower 8-cleft, all the lobes crenate: 

 stamens unequally inserted on filaments longer than the 



