rocks on cliffs 1500-2000 feet altitude. Funeral Mts, Death 

 A'allev. California. April 9, 1907, Tropical Life Zone. ■ 



Verbena Aubletia var. Lamberti (Sims. Bot. Mag. t 2200 

 as species). This is a well marked variety mistaken by col- 

 lectors for V. Wrightii. It is common in Arizona and New 

 Mexico; is a perennial and has the small glands of V. Aiib- 



Boerhavia annulata Coville. This remarkable plant so 

 different from most others of the genus was not well described. 

 Jt is a biennial, rarely reaching three years old, with thick and 

 almost woody base growing in tufts 1-5 feet in diameter with 

 basal stems nearly 1 inch thick and decumbent, the rest being 

 erect or nearly so, often 4 feet high, flowers open in the day- 

 time, are pleated, campanulate or rather open-funnel-form, 

 five-ribbed, pink-tipped ; stamens 3-4, purple, the lower two 

 declined and arched at tip, the pistil conspicuously so and 

 longer than the stamens, the latter exserted fully the length of 

 the calyx (except its narrow base) ; flowers retrorsely bearded ; 

 seed smooth, faintly 5-nerved, pear-shaped ; anthers vellow. 

 This grows in loose gravel in gulches in the very hottest 

 places on the east side of Death Vallev at 1000 feet altitude, 

 April 8, 1907. 



Boerhavia Thoraberi n. sp. 



Apparently annual, tall or long, widely panicled, closely 

 resembling B. intermedia, but flowers 2-4 in a short raceme, 

 scarcely double the length of the fruit, all on filiform pedicels 

 nearly as long as the fruit at last; flowers minute, i^ line long, 

 pink; stamens 2, exserted; fruit narrowly triangular (narrowly 

 obpyramidal), with short stipe, sharply 5-nerved, squarely 

 iT-nncate and with the ribs projecting in cross-section as knobs, 

 side of ribs rugose, interspaces very small and pubescent; 

 V. hole plant smooth ; upper leaves lanceolate and acute. 1 inch 

 long, short-petioled, bracts 2, subulate, very early deciduous; 

 lower leaves ovate, acute, whiter below, 2-3 inches long; 

 plants erect and annual. Collected by Thornber at Tucson, 

 Arizona, No. 10, Sept. 20, 1903. and also his No. 339. 



Enogonum androsaceum Bentham. The type of this 

 species has leaves 2-5 inches long, oblanceolale to nearly 

 linear, the petiole being nearly half the blade: plants acau- 

 cscent: peduncles a foot or less long with a whorl of simihr 

 1 "t short-petioled bracts; involucres 4 lines long deltoid- 

 lobed; rays stout, J-4-times the involucre; flowers shaggy- 



