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I to 1 inch long, bearing an umbel of 2 to 4 flowers on pedicels be- 

 coming ^ to 1^- inches long: calyx-lobes acuminate, 4 to 6 lines long 

 in fruit ; corolla an inch long, scarlet, pubescent, nearly straight, 

 cylindric-funnelform, moderately dilated upward and the throat but 

 little contracted: capsule turbinate-oblong, included. — On the Rio 

 Blanco, Jalisco; 18^8 (n. 1828); also collected by Dr. Palmer in 

 1886 (n. 577). 



Beloperon'e Prixglei. Erect, pubescent, somewhat branched : 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, acutish, cuneate at base, short-petiolate, 1 or 2 

 inches long or smaller on tlie branches : spikes axillary and terminal, 

 on very short peduncles, dense and imbricately bracteate, I to 1^ 

 inches long ; bracts foliaceous, sessile, about ^ inch long or more : 

 calyx-segments narrowly lanceolate, unequal, the longer 4 lines long 

 and about equalling the capsule : corolla yellow (?), narrowly tubular, 

 12 to 15 lines long, the narrow lips slightly cleft: seeds flattened. — 

 Hills near Monterey ; July, 1889 (n. 2548). 



Priva armata. Low and slender, a foot high or less, much 

 branched from the base, roughish hispid-pubescent throughout : leaves 

 sessile, ovate, acute, coarsely and irregularly toothed and somewhat 

 lobed, 9 lines long or less : spikes few-flowered, short and leafy- 

 bracteate : corolla 3 or 4 lines long, the tube equalling the calyx : 

 fruiting calyx subglobose, 3 lines in diameter, loosely enclosing the 

 fruit, which is covered with stout straight spines. — Valley of Mon- 

 terey ; July, 1888 (n. 1931). 



PoLiOMiNTHA BICOLOR. Much branched, forming low dense 

 clumps : leaves linear, or narrowly oblong (2 to 4 lines long) on short 

 slender petioles, white beneath (as the branches and calyx) with a 

 compact puberulence, glabrous and porulose above : calyx-teeth equal, 

 erect; corolla 15 lines long, the very narrow tube pubescent within 

 toward the base : sterile filament very short and rudimentary. — On 

 summit ledges of the Sierra de la Silla, at 5,000 feet altitude ; June, 

 1889 (u. 2536). Resembling P. Grcggii, but without loose pubes- 

 cence and the leaves narrower. 



Scutellaria suffrdtescens. Woody below, much and widely 

 branched, about 6 inches high, the branches very finely puberulent : 

 leaves entire, oblong-ovate, obtuse, shortly petiolate, 3 to 5 lines long : 

 flowers solitary in the upper axils, on short pedicels : corolla pubes- 

 cent, narrowly tubular, 9 lines long, greenish yellow and more or less 

 tinged (especially the suberose lower tip) with red. — On the bare 

 summit of the Sierra de la Silla, near Monterey, at 5,000 feet alti- 

 tude; June, 1889 (n. 2535). 



