Sphacele. 



LABIAT/E. 365 



base of these and the calyx hirsute: lobes of the latter unequal, all much longer than the 

 tube, the longer fully equallintr the violet or bluish corolla : sterile filaments small, with 

 small capitellate rudiment of antliers : style bearded above with very few coarse hairs. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. ;>8(), & Bot. Calif, i. 51)8. Iledeumu / scrjiylloidcs, Torr. in Tacif. R. Hep. 

 iv. 12o. — Monterey to Humboldt Co. ; common. 



25. CERANTHERA, Ell. {Ki-'qu^-, a horn, and drfJ/iQU, anther: cells of 

 the anther cornute.) — Peculiar to the southern Atlantic States, nearly glabrous 

 and slender erect annuals, a foot high, sweet-aromatic; with broadly or narrowly 

 linear and obtuse entire leaves ; the uppermost on the virgate branches diminished 

 to similar bracts of the thyrsoid-racemose inHorescence. Flowers autumnal, 

 handsome : corolla pink-purple and spotted, the calyx commonly purplish. — 

 8k. ii. 93; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. IIUI. Dlccrandra, Benth. in Bot. Reg. 

 1300, Lab. 413, & DC. Prodr. xii. 242. 



C. linearifolia, Ell. 1. c. Inflorescence loose : cymes short-pedunclcd, few-flowered : calyx- 

 teeth obscurely ciliolate, liardly equalling the tube of the (about half incli) corolla: anther- 

 cells slender-aristate. — Dirernndni //nwm, Benth. Lab. I.e. D. hneuriJ'i>lia,V>cn\.\\. in DC. 

 Prodr. 1. c. ; Chapm. Fl. 318. — Sandy pine barrens, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. 



C. densiflora. InHorescence dense ; the pedicels shorter and peduncle hardly any : 

 calyx-teeth appresscd-ciliate, equalling the tube of the corolla: anther-cells conical-cor- 

 nute : leaves mostly shorter and broader. — Dlcerandra densijlora, Benth. in DC. Prodr. 1. c. 

 — E. Florida, ./. /iVt//, &c. 



26. ACANTHOMINTHA, Gray. (^xf«'i^«, a prickle or thorn, and //rj^^K, 

 mint.) — Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 1192. Calamintha'^ § Acanthomintka^ Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 3G8, & Bot. Calif, i. o96. — Single sjiecies. 



A. ilicifolia, Gray, 1. c. Low and nearly glabi'ous annual, slightly aromatic (rather 

 heavy-scented), brancliing from the base, leafy to the top: leaves coriaceous, rotund or 

 broadly cuneate, coarsely crenate-dentate (half inch or more long, the blunt teeth of the 

 upper ones mostly mucroiuitc or cuspidate), contracted at base into a slender petiole: 

 a.xlls nearly all verticillastrate-floriferous : bracts a pair in each axil, almost as large as the 

 leaves, but sessile, equally coriaceous and more rigid, orbicular or dilatcd-sub<u>rdate, pin- 

 nately few-veined and with fine reticulated veinlets, the callous margin armed with a few 

 distant and long slender prickles, each pair siibtending 3 to 5 sessile flowers : corolla white 

 and rose-color, half inch long. — Southern borders of California, San Diego Co., Win. Rich, 

 C/errJdiid. Allied to (jlccliua of Brazil, which is also referred to this tribe, rather than to 

 the Slac/iijdeir. 



27. SPHACELE, Benth. (l\fci/.ng is the Greek name of S:<ge, which 

 these plants resemble in foliage.) — Shrubby or suffrutescent plants (chiefly S. 

 American) ; with the floral leaves gradually reduced in size, and the flowers single 

 ill their axils, above forming a leafy raceme. 



S. calycina, Benth. Shrubby at base, 2 to 5 feet high, tomcntulose-villous or glabrate : 

 branches leafy : leaves (2 to 4 inches long) ovate or oblong, obtuse, froui crenate or 

 obtusely serrate to entire, obtuse or rarely subcordate at base, rugose-veiny, more or less 

 petioled ; uppermost and bracts of the sliort raceme sessile : lobes of the very loose calyx 

 triangular-lanceolate, rather shorter than the purplish or 'lead-colored (inch long) corolla: 

 anthers short. — Lab. GOS, & DC. Prodr. xii. 255; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 131, t.37; Gray, 

 Bot. ('alif. i. 598. — Hillsides, connnon throughout the western part of California, especially 

 from San Francisco southward. 



Var. glabella, Gray, 1. c. A minutely tomcntidose and soon glabrate form, prob- 

 ably of sliady plnccs. — Santa Barbara Co., and southward. 



Var. "Wallacei. Cojjiously villous : lower cauline leaves with truncate or liastate- 

 subcordate base: calyx-lobes attenuate-lanceolate from a narrower base, over half inch 

 long. — Probably near Los Angeles, Wallace. 



