260 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



calyx lobes 5, minutely hispidulous, lance-subulate, about 1.5 mm. 

 long; limb of the corolla at first minutely glandular pubescent, finally 

 almost glabrous, the tube glabrous, 2 mm. long, the upper lip 3 mm. 

 long, bidentate, the lower 3 mm. long, 3-lobed, white, spotted with 

 purple, the middle lobe largest, about i mm. long; filaments about 

 1.5 mm. long; the locules of the anther superposed, about 0.3 mm. 

 long, oblong, the upper more or less completely horizontal; pollen 

 grains about 20 /x X 30 Mi style 3.5 mm. long. 



Planta herbacea, sparse minute hispidulosa, caule repente vel 

 ascendente, usque ad 2 dm. longo, subangulato, cystolithigero; foliis 

 margine integris, brevissime petiolatis, inferioribus late obovatis vel 

 oblongis, obtusis, basi plerumque acuminatis, superioribus linearibus, 

 2-4 cm. longis, 1-2 mm. latis, obtusiusculis; spicis terminalibus, 

 simplicibus vel subramosis, secundis, laxifloris, paucifloris (4-7), 

 pedunculatis; bracteis bracteolisque subulatis 1-2 mm. longis, minute 

 hispidulosis; calycis laciniis 5, minute hispidulosis, lanceolato-subu- 

 latis, ca. 1.5 mm. longis; corollae limbo extra minute glanduloso- 

 puberulo, demum glabriusculo, tubo glabro, 2 mm. longo, labio supero 

 .3 mm. longo, bidentato, infero albo, purpureo-maculato, 3 mm. longo, 

 trilobo, lobio medio majore, ca. i mm. longo; filamentis ca. 1.5 mm. 

 longis; antherarum loculis superpositis, ca. 0.3 mm. longis, oblongis, 

 rsupero horizontali; pollinis granulis ca. 20 ju diametro, 30 jU longis; 

 fitylo 3.5 mm. longo. 



Type. — Damp bank of arroyo, Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 533. Specimen in the herbarium of the Carnegie 

 Museum. 



This species is most nearly related to Justicia reptans Swartz, but 

 differs very strikingly in the suddenly elongated upper leaves, the 

 uppermost or next uppermost pair being the longest, some of the 

 lowermost being almost orbicular. 



664. Justicia Rugeliana (Grisebach) Lindau. 



Dianthera Rugeliana Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 196. 



Dianlhera glandulosa Grisebach, op. cit., p. 197. 



Justicia Rugeliana Lindau, Symbolae Antillanee, II, 1900, p. 244. 



"On old garden spot at Pedernales Point, Isle of Pines (1438)" 

 Millspaugh. General Distribution: Northern and western Cuba and 

 the Isle of Pines. 



