54 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
Lippia barbata Brandg. This species requires a better description 
than the one given. My specimens from the Cayuca ranch in the 
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Whole plant very rough-pubescent throughout even to the small 
flowers. Hairs appressed from a pustulate base. Leaves thick 
wud leathery, raised-pinnate-veincd, 2-3 inches long, ovate to lance- 
olute-ovate, acute, low-and bluntly-crenate, very, shortly-cuneate 
into the very short petiole, nearly equally pubescent on both sides 
rarely oval-ovate and obtusish. Floweis apparently dicecious, 
white, the fertile ones in dense and ovate hends(at first) about an 
inch long and as long as the peduncles, the flowers themselves be- 
ing barely as long as the ovate and overlapping, green and obtuse 
bracts, 8mm. lung and rather densely short-pubescent. The 
whole floral cluster is not exserted beyond the leaves, At maturi- 
ty the 5-nerved bracts disurticulate about 1 mm. above the rachis 
and fall off, the stout pedicels are articulated to the top and cup- 
shaped and about 1 mm. loug and remain on the rachis which is 
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oe Srooves between, not punctate nor warty, with angles a_lit- 
west aoe The plants remind one of pilulifera, but seeds diff 
