CONTRIBUTIONS TO bidetodvee a od hi 53 
rum 6 mm, longo; Jabia superiore 3 mm. _ alta, interiore Be 9 mm. 
diam. 
MEMBRAN ACEA( ESCHOLTZOIDEL). 
Salvia verecunda .n sp. Epling In miontibtiy Siditte 
Madris Mex, in canone ga ee lecta Spud est; typum In 
herb. Coll, Pomona vidi. . Herba: perenne, parva, éreeunda: ;caul- 
ibus ascendentibus, 20-30 cm. altis, hirtellie, folivrain latninis del: 
tn-serrata, paginis ambobus viridis et: hirtellis; glomerulis inter se 
1-3 em, distantibus, bracteis viridibus ciliatis subtentis; calycibus 
florentibus 6 mm. longis extus ad basim minute glan dulosis et, pilis 
ae ees setaceis, sparsisssme conspersis in maturitate fere gla- 
brie paulo auctis: corollarum tubo 4 mm. longo, intus nudo, labia 
superiore 2.5 min. alta, inferiore 5.5 mm: longo. 
Uyptis decipiens n. sp. No. 27299, Triunfo L)' Cal! 
Oct ! nee ates to He eee erect, shrubs 3-6 ft. high. 
with stems ending in open..panicles,, Whole ‘plant 8 eed 
ae sek the white woolly Oe aa but leaves puberulent on 
the raised nerves below, and roughened on the upper side’ with 
minute hairs, The pubescence throughont consists of rather 
long-stalked hairs branching at tip into a stellate-appearing miass, 
but really the branches are 'slternate. The pubescence of the pan- 
icles is densely-white, very close, andi mot woollv, ‘all the’ parts 
from calyx to peduncles about apes white. ‘Leaves ovate to 
lanceolate, cuneate into the petiole, ‘1 cm. long,’ mostly acuminate 
ar tip, obtusely crenulate, reduced site: those of the’ panicles 
about aninch long and elliptical. » Panicles'a foot or two ‘Jong, 
opea, of many ascending branches: with regular pairs of clusters, 
eae +h on a pedungle .5-l inch long: Clusters umbellate;’ of about 
5 flowers on oat pedicels abont as long asthe 3 mmi-long’ calyx 
isa with filiform lobes half she mnahe Corolle not over oe mm, 
Jong, purple, , 
Sphacele hastata Geng. Ivan Johubton ia his flora of the Revil. 
lagigedo islands speaks of the vile smell of the plant. TI can 
that it was infested with a cloud of hummingbirds all dry i in the 
Lagunas and that I did not observe any bad ‘odor. It ‘covered an 
acre there and was apparently at home.’ I also saw it on the trail 
in 1923 on the east side: of the Tange. Tt “may have been intro- 
duced. 
it aeciareia Brownei' var | pilosiitscuta Griy of Texas tins oblong-o- 
vate nutlets, 2mm. long and’ rather ree gation with” feleh 
buck and conspicuously white- motile 
