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yx 5-cleft to the base and with the linear lobes2 mm. lone. The 
ovate capsule about as long as the calyx and 2-valved to the base. 
Flowers deep-blue with yellow throat. 
uelfia megacantha n. sp. No 27387, La Barranes, 
Guadalajaea, Noy, 25 1930.. Growing on steep slopes, a very 
slender and openly branched shrub, 4-6 ft. high, with leaves in-- 
clined to be clustered at the ends of twigs. Young leaves rather 
minate at beth ends, on petioles not over 1 cm. long. Flowers 
bine, 2.2.5 inches long, about 1.5 inches wide, puberulent, with 
rounded lobes 2 inch long, widely spreading, tube 1-2 em. S. 
then funnel-form and as long. Calyx lobes hardly 1 cm. ng, 
narrow, about as long as the oblong-obovate and almost sessile 
fruit. Flowers about 3 in a leafy cluster at ends of twigs. Two 
epauperate B, Californica, 
those of Purpusii, color of flowers 
tube barely 2 mm. wide, no viscosity, in- 
ot! ede ot see an ood reason for 
ogee this Into several species as has been if . 
one. 
Q22Q7 : ; ay 
f NO. 23391 is Crusea parviflora TI. & A, not villcsa, 
