MINT FAMILY 391 



Refs. — Trichostema ovatum Curran, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:154 (1885), type loc. Bakersfield, 

 Curran (that is, along railroad s. of Sumuer, near Bakersfield, ace. to label of type coll.) ; Jepson, 

 Man. S63 (1925). 



7. T. lanatum Bentb. California Romero. Leafy shrub 2 to 5 feet bigh, 

 branched from the base ; leaf-blades liuear-lanceolate, glabrous and green above, 

 more or less lanate below, revolute, 1 to 2 (or 21/0) inches long, sessile ; flowers borne 

 in a virgate interrupted sometimes leafy spike-like thyrse ; thyrse 6 to 14 inches 

 long, composed of whorls of cymes; cymes dense, subsessile, covered with a copious 

 purple wool; calyx-lobes 2 to 3 lines long, reticulate-venose; corolla blue, 9 to 11 

 lines long, arachuoid-tomentose outside, the tube about half again as long as the ca- 

 lyx ; stamens much exserted (8 to 14 lines beyond the corolla-tube) ; nutlets rugose- 

 reticulate, minutely hispidulose, with longer curly hairs at apex, l^/o lines long. 



Dry rocky benches, caiion bottoms or open ridges of the coastal mountains, often 

 associated with Adenostoma fasciculatum, 500 to 3500 feet : San Benito and Mon- 

 terey Cos. to Los Angeles and Orange Cos. Apr.-July. 



Locs. — Lorenzo Creek, San Benito Co., BeUys ; Santa Lucia Peak, Jepson 4734 ; Sisquoe River, 

 Santa Barbara Co., M. S. Bal-er 29; Ojai Valley, Olive Thacher 42; Saugus, n. Los Angeles Co.; 

 Santiago Caiion, Santa Ana Mts., Helen D. Geis. 



Eofs. — Trichostema laxatum Benth., Lab. Gen. et Sp. 659 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 454 (1901), ed. 2, 354 (1911), Man. 863 (1925). 



8. T. parishii Vasey. Shrub (similar to no. 7), 1 to 2 (or 3) feet high; leaf- 

 blades linear or narrowly lanceolate, glabrous above, tomentulose (or even gla- 

 brous) below, revolute, 1 to l^^ inches long; flowers borne in a spike-like thyrse; 

 thyi-se 4 to 11 inches long, composed of 4 to 10 whorls of cjones, the cymes seeund, 

 somewhat seorpioid, pedunculate, open and somewhat spreading in fruit ; cal\^- 

 lobes 1 line long, the venation obscure ; corolla 4 to 6 lines long, the tube barely 

 exserted, the 2 lateral lobes of lower lip and the 2 lobes of upper lip ovatish, alike 

 in form and color (light purple), the middle lobe of lower lip different from the 

 other 4 lobes of the corolla, obovate, concave, notched at apex, dark purple with 2 

 purple spots on the white base; nutlets similar to those of T. lanatum but slightly 

 smaller (about I14 lines long). 



Dry slopes of interior mountains and desert drainages, 1500 to 5800 feet : San 

 Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains south to eastern San Diego 

 Co. South to northern Lower California. June-July. 



Locs.— Arrastre Creek, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson ; Mt. Gleason, San Gabriel Mts., Barher 

 241; Cajon Pass, Peirson; San Bernardino, Parish 3645; Foxesee Creek, San Bernardino Mts., 

 Mum 6il5; Mt. San Jacinto (w. base), C. F. Meyer 214; Heraet Valley, near Kenworthy, Clary 

 1583; Palm Canon of San Jacinto (upper end), Jepson 1335; Julian, T. Brandegee ; betw. Ja- 

 cumba and Pine Valley, San Diego Co., C. V. Meyer 436. 



Refs. — Trichostema parishii Vasey, Bot. Gaz. 6:173 (1881), type loc. San Diego Co., Parish 

 4- Fasry. T. lanatum var. demidatnm Gray, Sj-u. FI. 2 :459 (1886), type loc. San Bernardino Co., 

 Parish; Munz, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 23*:130" (1924) ; Jepson, Man. 863 (1925). 



3. SCUTELLARIA L. Skull-cap 



Ours perennial herbs, the flowers solitary in the opposite axils (axillary pairs) 

 or, when the leaves are reduced, forming spikes or racemes. Calyx 2-lipped, both 

 lips entire, the upper with a scale-like or crest-like projection on the back, in anthesis 

 campanulate, after anthesis closed, and in fruit splitting to the base. Corolla with 

 a long-exserted tube; upper lip galeate, entire or barely notched, the lateral lobes 

 of the lower lip more or less attached to it so that it appears 3-lobed, the middle lobe 

 seeming to constitute the whole lower lip. Stamens 4 ; anthers ciliate-pilose. Upper 

 fork of style short or none. Nutlets papillate or smooth, rarely wing-margined. — 

 Species about 200, all continents. (Latin scutella, a dish, on account of the con- 

 spicuous protuberance on the fruiting calyx.) 



Leaf-blades all broad and subcordate or truncate at base, sessile or nearly so. 



Leaf blades acute, the lower serrate; corolla blue 1. S. galericvlala. 



Leaf-blades obtuse, the lower crcnulate ; corolla whitish or cream-color 2. S. lolanderi. 



