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into 3 equal clivergeut broadly obovaie truncate slightly cuspL 

 date lobes, these deep blue at tip, Avliite below, tlie base of tlie 

 undivided part of the organ marked by a transversely some- 

 what quadrate spot of dark red-purple : genitalia wholly 

 included Avithin the turbinate tube. 



Near D. concoJor (Bull. Calif. Acad. ii. 153), but of differ- 

 ent habit, with erect npper lip and very differently marketl 

 lower one. This and the followijig new Lobeliaceous plants 

 were all discovered by the writer in fields of the lower Sacra- 

 mento valley near Elmira, in the early part of May, 1890. 



DowNiNGiA ORNATissiMA. Ercct, slender, G to 10 inches 

 high, simple or branched from the base : tube of corolla 

 abruptly raised into a sharp protuberance at base of the upper 

 pair of segments, each of these abruptly deflexed and coiled 

 Hckward into a complete ring : lower lij) I inch broad, parted 

 into 3 divergent, broadly somewhat obconlate and slightly 

 cuspidate segments ; basal portion of the Hp with 4 fold-like 

 bat vpry abruptly raised protuberances making the tbroat 

 deeply 3-lobed : tips of the segments sky-blue and collectively 

 circumscribing a broad somewhat quadrate field of white, this 

 marked with a pair of obovate greenish yellow spots : genitalia 

 exserted beyond the tube, and exposed by the abrupt deflection 

 of the two upper segments. 



_ The flowers of this are the dullest in the genus, as to color- 

 nig, and general effect when seen in a mass. The name 

 alludes to the extremely and variedly ornate configuration 

 of the corolla. The inflorescence is quite corymbose. 



_ BowNiNGiA iNsiGNis. Stuutish, 6 inches high, erect, mostly 

 simpleand few-flowered: corolla large and elongate (| inch 

 from tip to tip of the two main divisions; lower lip * inch 

 hroad) tube very short, campanulate ; upper lip erect, merely 

 bifad (cleft only i down), the segments ascending and parallel ; 



ower lip broadly obovate, 3-lobed at apex, the lobes and 

 Interal parts of the body sky-blue marked with darker 

 yemlets; mam portion white, bearing 2 oblong parallel 



