38 Contributions to Western Botany. 
leaves elliptical to oblong-lanceolate; delicate annual. Albu- 
querque, New Mexico, andsouthward. In my specimens the fruit. 
is rounded at the apex. 
5. B. spicata Choisy DC. Prod. 13 456. Flowers with con- 
spicuous brown nerves and 4” long; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, acute, dark-colored; fruit with a pair of narrow bractlets at 
the base. Arizona. 
6. Var. Palmeri Wats. Proc. A.A.24 70. Finely pubescent; 
leaves nearly glabrous; flowering racemes 1-2” long; floral bracts 
none; stamens 2, included; flowers 4” long; fruit clavate-oblong, 
1” long, obtuse, mostly obtusely angled, grooves very long and 
sinuate. Arizona. 
7. War. Torreyana Wats. Proc. A. A. 24 70, hasthickish, scab- 
rous, glandular leaves, and flowers about 1” long. This abounds 
in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. 
B. Xanti Wats. Proc. A. A. 24 71. This has large, white 
flowers in a loose raceme about 1’ long; stamens 4, long-exserted; 
fruit oblong-obovate, obtuse, 1” long. acutely angled, rugose 1D 
the intervals. This occurs at Guaymas, Mex 
3A. Flowers panicled, single, when young often in twos in B. 
anisophrlila. 
SAB. ee ves eee or nearly so, thick, mucronate-acute, 
tate; bractlet ts 3-5;fruit 5-ribbed, 
ginhioks, Chie dinbane 6 2 ros: obtuse; diffuse plants, 
viscid at least above; petioles very Short or none. 

8. B. linearifolia Gray Am. Jour. Sci. 2 15 321. Flowers 
short pediceled, in an open cyme, purple, 4° wide; stamens 5. 
Texas. 
. B. tenuifolia Gray Coult. Fl. Tex.355. Flowers few, laose, 
about 4” broad, pubescent. wheel-shaped; stamens 3. Texas. 
3A2B. Leaves not linear. 
10 B. anisophylla Gray Mex. Bound. 181. Stems not hairy: 
