

Calyx red, 5 lines long, triangular lobes I line long; 

 flowers red 1>^ inches long; leaves ovate, cordate, obtusely 

 shailow-crenate, 2 inches long, on a petiole 2-6 lines long, 

 hoary below, green above, the lower one smaller; flowers in 

 one terminal and loose glomenile, or in a short spike 3-4 inches 

 long; bracts small; plants 2-3 feet high with the h^bit of 

 Lophanthus. San Diego Canvon, Sierra Madre Mts., Chihua- 

 hua, Mexico, at 6000 feet altitude, Sept. 16, 1903. 



Hedeoma patens n. sp. 



Erect perennial from a woody root, 2 feet high, stem slen- 

 der and nearly simple, minutely pubescent, about the middle 

 producing short and leafy branches which are very slender 

 nnd fforiferous above the middle and with narrowly elliptical 

 bracts 4-6 lines long, and few flowered; upper leaves with axil- 

 lary and sessile clusters of flowers, only the uppermost leaves 

 shorter than the flowers and pedicels, leaves punctate, short- 

 petioled, oblong-lanceolate, with a cuncate base and blunt tip, 

 obscurely dentate above, nearly glabrous, 1 inch long, thin, 

 not nervose; flowers on filiform pedicels about 4 lines long, 

 rather many, but not densely clustered; calyx tube 3 lines 

 long, the two upper teeth shorter, broader and reflexed, all 

 ciliate; corolla with slender tube about twice the caljrx, pu- 

 berulent. This has the habit of Calamintha. Guayanopa 

 Canyon, Sierra Madre Mts., Chihuahua, Mexico, at 50OO feet 

 altitude, Sept. 23, 1903. 



Scutellaria alta n. sp. 



Erect, tufted herbs, 3 feet high allied to S. Wrightii ; nut- 

 lets the same; whole plant minutely pubescent, ashy below, 

 stems slender, paniculately branched; leaves ovate, the lower 

 coarsely dentate, obtuse, the upper triangular-acute and entire, 

 p11 with cuneate base and stout petiole 2-3 lines long, 

 3-5-nerved, paler below, 1 inch long; flowers blue, 8 lines long, 

 axillary and single in the axils; calyx not greatly accrescent. 

 2 lines long in fruit, 1 line long in flower ; roots thick, woody 

 aHd not stolomferous. Guayanopa Canyon, Sierra Madre 

 Mts.. Chihuahua, Mexico, Sept. 24, 1903, 



Perennial stems somewhat creeping, many, ascending to 

 :t at tip ; sparsely pilose plants ; leaves narrowly oblong, 

 ulose, crenulate, obtuse, with a contracted base, nearly 



