1304 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Tepic and Jalisco to Veracruz ; type collected between La Banderilla and 

 Jalapa, Veracruz. Guatemala and El Salvador. 



Shrub, about 3 meters high ; leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, 5 to 11 cm. long, 

 acute or acuminate, oblique and often subcordate at base, short-villous, espe- 

 cially beneath; corolla about 1 cm. long. " Belladona months" (El Salvador). 



3. Bassovia setosa T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 373. 1917. 

 Type from Zacuapan, Veracruz. 



Low slender shrub ; leaves lance-oblong or ovate-oblong, 3 to 4.5 cm. long, 

 acute at base and apex, setose-pilose ; flowers few, short-pedicellate ; calyx 

 with 5 lanceolate lobes ; corolla about 6 mm. long, hirtellous ; fruit 5 mm. in 

 diameter. 



4. Bassovia foliosa T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 373. 1917. 

 Type from Zacuapan, Veracruz. 



Shrub ; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 7 to 12 cm. long, short-acuminate, 

 acute at base, glabrous except along the costa beneath ; flowers umbellate, the 

 umbels pedunculate, 5 to 7-flowered ; calyx shallowly 5-lobate ; fruit 5 mm. in 

 diameter. 



5. Bassovia escuintlensis (Coulter) Standi. 

 Brachistus escuintlensis Coulter, Bot. Gaz. 16: 144. 1891. 



Bassovia purpusii T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 372. 1917. 



Veracruz and Chiapas. Guatemala ; type from Escuintla. 



Shrub, the stems glabrous or very minutely puberulent ; leaves ovate to 

 ovate-oblong, mostly 10 to 25 cm. long, acuminate, abruptly decurrent at base, 

 thin ; flowers long-pedicellate, usually numerous ; calyx truncate ; fruit about 

 7 mm. in diameter. 



6. Bassovia mexicana Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 26: 171. 1891. 



Nuevo Le6n, San Luis Potosi, and Veracruz; type from Tamasopo Canyon, 

 San Luis Potosi. 



Shrub, 1 to 4.5 meters high, the branches glabrous or sparsely short-villous; 

 leaves long-petiolate, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, 5 to 17 cm. long, acuminate, 

 usually obtuse or rounded at base; flowers numerous, long-pedicellate; calyx 

 truncate ; fruit 6 to 10 mm. in diameter. 



Perhaps not distinct from B. macrophylla (H. B. K.) Benth. & Hook. 



13. LITHOPHYTUM T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 188. 1911. 



A sngle species is known. 

 1. Lithophytum violaceum T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 188. 1911. 



Type from Santa Lucia, Puebla. 



Shrub ; leaves fasciculate at the nodes, oval, 4 to 7 mm. long, obtuse, entire, 

 3-nerved, glabrous, ciliolate ; flowers pedicellate at the nodes ; calyx 3 to 4 

 mm. long, campanulate, 5-lobate, puberulent ; corolla 8 mm. long, violaceous, 

 puberulent, salverform ; anthers longitudinally dehiscent ; ovary 1-celled, 2 to 

 4-ovulate. 



It is not certain that the plant belongs to the Solanaceae. The material 

 seen by the writer is too fragmentary for critical examination. 



149. SCROPHTJLARIACEAE. Figwort Family. 



Shrubs or more commonly herbs ; leaves opposite or sometimes alternate or 

 verticillate, entire or toothed (in the genera treated here), estipulate; flowers 

 perfect, usually irregular ; calyx inferior, 5-lobate or 5-dentate ; corolla 



