NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 139 
constitute the most impassable line of separation between 
species morphologically much alike. 
24. N. HAMATA. Also near N. atractyloides, and like it 
aromatie, but smaller and comparatively slender; leaves not 
foliaceous-dilated, but with a linear, or nearly linear rachis 
and few or many spinose-subulate segments of which the 
terminal one, and sometimes one or all of the lateral pairs are 
strongly recurved or else abruptly deflexed (forming hooks) ; 
ealyx-segments all subulate and spinose-tipped, all erect, 2 
twice as large as the others: corolla salverform, deep purple, 
large for the plant, the slender tube well exserted from the 
ealyx. 
Gaudalupe Mountain, Lower California, June, 1883, C. R. 
Oreutt. Also at All Saints' Bay, May, 1885, by the present 
writer. 
New or NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 
Stpatcea Hicxmani. Root perennial, woody-fibrous, not 
tuberous-thickened : stems numerous, erect, 2—3 feet high, 
leafy throughout: pubescence stellate-hirsute, short but abun- 
dant: lowest leaves small, roundish, with shallow crenate 
lobes, all the others larger, an inch long, exactly flabelliform, 
the semicircular upper border coarsely and irregularly toothed, 
the petiole rather longer than the blade: racemes numerous, 
axillary and terminal, peduneulate, few-flowered and a little 
flexuous: pedicels short, bearing 3 filiform bracteoles a half 
inch long : calyx j inch long, cleft below the middle, the seg- 
ments oblong-ovate, acuminate: corolla an inch broad and 
long, rose purple: fruit much depressed, the carpels nearly 
orbicular, glabrous and with a few scattered transverse rugosi- 
ties which are prominent along the edges but do not reach the 
Somewhat depressed midvein. 
In Reliz Cañon, back from the Salinas valley, Monterey Co., 
Cal., 1886 and 1887, Mr. J. B. Hickman. 
