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larger, often 3 cm. long, mostly entire : inflorescence 3 to 6 cm. high, a 

 trichotomous loose cyme ; flowers rather crowded at the tips ; floral leaves 

 linear: corolla funiiel-forra, 6 mm. long, the lobes barely 1 mm. long: 

 stamens and style slightly exserted : fruit hirsute. — Morelos, mossy 

 rocks, Sierra de Tepoxtlan, alt. 2,310 m., Sept. 5, 1900 {C. G. Pringle, 

 no. 8454). Resembling V. mexicana^ DC, but with hispid stem, nar- 

 rower leaves, and longer corolla. 



Lobelia regalis. Stem tall and stout, softly white-tomentose, almost 

 lanate, above : leaves lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 1 to 2 dm. long, 4 to 

 8 cm. broad, subentire or minutely denticulate with pale hard teeth, pale 

 green above, at first tomentulose, later glabrate, densely canescent-tomen- 

 tose beneath ; petioles slender, canescent, 2 or 3 cm. long : peduncles 

 white-tomentose, axillary, ascending, becoming 5 or 6 cm. long : calyx 

 hemispherical, canescent, 8 to 12 ram. long, cleft half-way to the base 

 into remote lanceolate lobes : corolla 3.5 to 4.5 cm. long, bright red, 

 canescent-tomentulose without, the lips subequal : filaments pilose-hispid; 

 anthers 6 or 7 mm. long, glabrous except at the long-hirsute tip. — 

 Oaxaca, Cuicatlan, alt. 555 m., Dec. 2, 1895 (L. C. Smith, in exsicc. 

 C. Conzatti, no. 105); between Tlacolula and San Dionisio, Chichicapa, 

 Jan. 3, 1896, and bed of the river Tehuantepec, below Totolapam, 

 Yauhtepec, Jan. 4, 1896 (C. & K Seler, nos. 1673, 1669). Related to 

 X. laxijlora, HBK., but differing from that in its much larger petioled 

 leaves and its denser white pubescence. 



L. Nelsonii. Shrub with hard ligneous branches covered by smooth 

 gray bark ; branchlets bearing irregular areas of leaf-scars ; young leaf- 

 bearing brauchlets smooth or hispidulous: leaves firm, ovate-lanceolate, 

 4 to 7 cm. long, 1 or 2 cm. wide, mostly long-acuminate, narrowed below 

 to a short petiole, sharply and irregularly serrate, minutely and sparingly 

 hispidulous : peduncles hispidulous, 1.5 to 4 cm. long, few at the tips of 

 the branches : calyx glabrous, hemispherical, with linear-lanceolate lobes 

 3 or 4 mm. long : corolla red, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, glabrous within and with- 

 out: filaments glabrous ; anthers 7 mm. long, glabrous except at the bearded 

 tip. — Jalisco, oak woods at 1,380 to 1,694 m. alt., near Hiiachinango, 

 March 4, 1897 (E. W. Nelson, no. 4009). A unique species in Mexico. 



L. GRUiNA, Cav., var. conferta. Coarser and generally more 

 branching than the species : racemes densely flowered, not secund, at first 

 short and capitate, later becoming loose and elongated. — Durango, 

 abundant by a creek, Dos Cajetes, alt. 2,620 m., Nov., 1896 (Edw. Palmer, 

 no. 810) : formerly collected by Gregg in 1848-49, but without record 

 of locality (no. 392). 



