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Orobanche. Ina recent brochure on this genus a European an- 
peg in commenting on my specimens in herbaria gives my name 
EK. J. Marcus though rst niin mr te o shomiea “iba name in 
rat so that there can be no How any caieful 
man could make such a ‘se dati is ‘hard $s ‘balteve unless he copied 
from some address-book, where it was given as ‘‘Jones, Marcus E‘‘ 
but even then, not ghee 
Herpestis macrantha sp. No, 43627, P. Coll. Herb., 
Colonia Juarez Chihuahua, Foneh Sept. 12 1903, 6000 ft alt i in 
ditches by roadside. A creeping and rooting perennial with pros- 
trate to ascending stems, acutely angled and a few inches high, 
smooth, with internodes shorter than the leaves. Leaves punctate 
and lanceolate and tapering into very short petioles, not auricled 
nor clasping, sparsely low-serrate above, about an inch long, litile 
reduced above. Pediccls single in the upper axils, filiform, aren) 
an inch long, pee y slightly longer than the leaves. Ca alyx 6 
long in flower a mm. in fruit, the two outer lobes oblong- eS 
acuminate, the atin narrower and a little shorter. Corolla yel- 
lowish at least below and purple-tinged above, broad, a half lon- 
ger than the calyx, with lobes flaring, Pods ‘oblong. ovate equal- 
_ing the calyx lobes, shortly acute. Seeds black, oval, faveolute. 
vesia sessilis n. sp. No. 27410 La Barranca, Gua- 
dalajara, Nov, 211920. An erect and rathor shrubby plant, gro- 
wing in rich slopes, 3-4 ft. high, cymosely branched above into 
long, linear, and dense short-leafy-bracted spikes a foot or two long 
and shortly and densely glandular- -pubescent throughout even to 
the flowers. Leaves opposite throughout even to the uppermost 
floral bracts, sessile, almost clasping. laa thortly-acnte, 
coarsely se errate, 2-3 inches long by hal 3 wide, venose, thick, 
lower floral bracts 1 em. long, smaller eer sharply serrate, ovate 
and persistent. Calyx 6 mm. long, teeth deltoid, nearly half the 
whole, green. Flowers red, almost sessile (pedicel 1-2 mm. long) 
ascending, 2 inches long by 5mm. wide, split 4 the way down, 
with the lower lobes a little flaring, slightly wider abort. Fila. 
ments of the two long stamens wider above and densely bearded 
on one side, the other stamens abortive and filaments shorter. 
Pods oval-ovate, 8 mm. long, black, abruptly and sharply acumi- 
nate, not oblique, filled with the oblong seeds which are truncate 
at both ends, 1 mm. long and a little wider above and with a con- 
spicuous honeycomb coat with the cells in longitudinal lines go going 
clear through the coat which is about as thick as the seed soit 
Seed veg quite different from the other species and fro 
Castille 
The following Salvias were submitted to Prof. Carl Epling of 
Univ. Cal, Los Angeles branch who has pence son on the Labi- 
tz but who follows the Vienna code, as I do 
