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3. Leucophyllum texanum Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 344. 1846. 

 Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. Western Texas ; type from Laredo. 

 Shrub, sometimes 2.5 meters liigh, densely stellate-tomentulose througliout ; 



leaves mostly obovate, 2.5 cm. long or less, obtuse or rounded at apex, acute 

 at base, sessile or nearly so; sepals lanceolate; corolla 1.8 to 2.5 cm. long. 

 " Cenizo " (Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Texas) ; " palo cenizo " (Nuevo Le6n) ; 

 " liierba del cenizo" (Coahuila). 



The plant is employed locally as a remedy for fever and ague. It is probably 

 this species which was mentioned by Berlandier ^ as occurring in Texas where 

 it was known as " cenicilla." Berlandier states that an infusion of the leaves 

 was used by the Indians as a febrifuge. He proposed a new genus for the 

 plant and called it Teranea frutescens, in honor of General Mier y Teran, the 

 director of the expedition, but no formal description of the genus was published. 



4. Leucophyllum minus A. Gray in Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 115. 1859. 

 Chihuahua to Nuevo Leon and Zacatecas. Western Texas and southern New 



Mexico ; type collected in Texas along the Pecos River. 



Shrub, sometimes 1 meter high, finely stellate-tomentulose throughout ; leaves 

 spatulate-obovate, 13 mm. long or less, rounded at apex ; sepals linear ; corolla 

 1.8 to 2.5 cm. long, purple but often violet when dry. 



5. Leucophyllum ambiguum Humb. & Bonpl. PI. Aequin. 2: 95. i)l. 109. 1809. 

 Leucophyllum campanulatmn Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 5: 254. 1850. 

 Zacatecas to Hidalgo. 



Shrub, 1 to 3 meters high, stellate-tomentose throughout; leaves petiolate, 

 orbicular or broadly elliptic, 2 cm. long or less, rounded at apex ; sepals lin- 

 ear-lanceolate ; corolla about 1.5 cm. long. 



2. GHIESBREGHTIA A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 629. 1873. 

 A single species is known. 



1. Ghiesbreghtia grandiflora A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 630. 1873. 



Chiapas (type locality). Guatemala. 



Tree, 7.5 meters high or less ; leaves alternate, petiolate, elliptic or elliptic- 

 oblong, 3 to 6.5 cm. long, obtuse, coarsely crenate above the middle, acute at 

 base, pubescent ; flowers solitary in the leaf axils ; calyx 5-parted, the lobes 

 linear or oblong, obtuse ; corolla yellowish, about 6 cm. long, bilabiate, the 

 upper lip erect, bilobate, the lower 3-parted ; stamens 2 ; capsule 2 to 2.5 cm. 

 long. 



3, GALVEZIA Dombey ; Juss. Gen. PI. 119. 1789. 



Plants suffrutescent ; leaves mostly opposite, entire ; flowers axillary or sub- 

 racemose, red; calyx small, 5-parted; corolla tubular, the upper lip erect, bilo- 

 bate, the lower lip trifid; stamens 4. 



Leaves linear or oblong-linear 1. G. juncea. 



Leaves oval to lanceolate 2. G. glabrata. 



1. Galvezia juncea (Benth.) A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 311. 1887. 



Maurandia juncea Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 41. 1844. 



Saccularia veatcMi Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 17. 1863. 



Baja California; t>T)e from Magdalena Bay. 



Shrub 1 to 2.5 meters high, the branches terete, glabrous ; leaves 1 cm. long or 

 less, glabrous, soon deciduous; pedicels glandular-puberulent or glabrous; 

 corolla 3 cm. long, short-pilose ; capsule 6 to 8 mm. long, erect. 



* Diario de viage de la Comisi6n de LImites, p. 276. 1850. 



