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Verbenaceee. 



ViTEX MOLLIS, HBK. ; Seem. Bot. Herald, 329, t. 71. Ravines 

 near Batopilas, Palmer, with mature fruit, which seems to have been 

 nearly unknown. Seemann, indeed, gives the character "capsula 

 obovato-rotundata glabra," but the specimen figured is in flower only. 

 The fruit now in hand is a globose drupe, half an inch or more in 

 diameter, with thin pulp and a very thick bony putamen. Dr. Palmer 

 notes that the fruit, called Uvalama, is eaten by the Indians, either 

 raw or cooked. 



Labiatce. 



IIyptis Seemannl Facie JI. sfeUiilatce, Benth., pube molliori 

 tomentoso-canescens ; caule herbaceo orgyali ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis 

 rugulosis creberiter crenulatis basi rotundatis (2-3-pollicaribus cum 

 petiolo subsemipollicari) ; capitulis sen verticillastris globosis modo 

 JI. stellulatce concatenatis ; bracteis subulatis minimis deciduis ; calyce 

 obconico (etiam fructifero baud ultra lineam longo), dentibus subulatis 

 erectis mollibus tubo villosissimo dimidio brevioribus intus fauceque 

 lanosissimis ; corolla parum exserta. — N. W. Mexico, probably the 

 species merely mentioned from " Cerro de Pinal," Seemann. Moun- 

 tain-sides above Batopilas, Palmer, 177. 



Hedeoma costata, Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. 363, 1878 ; Hemsl. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am. ii. 547, 1882, where by oversight it is taken up as original. 

 — Mountains near the city of Chihuahua, Pringle, 133. Near Bato- 

 pilas, Palmer, 441. So this species has a wide range in Mexico, and 

 Dr. Havard found it in the mountains on the Texan side of the Rio 

 Grande, but in forms which too nearly approach H. plicata and II. 

 dentata. 



Salvia tili^efolia, Vahl, This common weed in Mexico is, 

 according to Dr. Palmer, the Chia of the district he visited, the seeds 

 of which are largely infused for a mucilaginous drink, as is done in 

 Arizona and California with ^S*. Columbarice. 



Salvia micropiiylla, HBK., Nov. Gen. & Spec. ii. 295. The 

 plants here referred (including 748, 739, Parry & Palmer, and 662, 

 Schaffner) very well accord with the original character, except as to 

 degree of pubescence, having at most a trace of " calycibus hirtis," 

 but coming near to Bentham's " nervis pubescentibus," and they do 

 seem to run into the larger-leaved S. Grahami, Benth. 



Var. CANESCENS, Gray in Distrib. Pringle, may be near the original, 

 as it is the most pubescent form, and the rugose small leaves are densely 



