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Anther cells mucronate or calcarate at base. 



Corolla tube usually ampliate above 15. JUSTICIA. 



Corolla tube slender, not or scarcely ampliate. 



Corolla lobes abruptly spreading 16. SIPHONOGLOSSA. 



Corolla lobes not abruptly spreading, the posterior lip erect or 

 nearly so 17. BELOPERONE. 



1. BABLERIA L. Sp. PL 636. 1753. 

 1. Barleria micans Nees; Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 146. 1844. 



Barleria discolor Nees; Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 146. 1844. 



Tepic to Morelos, Veracruz, and Chiapas. Guatemala to Colombia; type from 

 Taboga Island, Panama. 



Plants herbaceous or fruticose, 1 to 1.5 meters high; leaves ovate to narrowly 

 lanceolate, 10 to 25 cm. long, long-acuminate, attenuate or abruptly decurrent 

 at base, sparsely strigose or hirtellous; flowers in large dense terminal spikes, the 

 bracts large, lance-ovate to broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, strigose and hirsute- 

 ciliate, bluish when dry; calyx lobes very unequal, 2 of them narrow, the other 2 

 large and resembling the bracts; corolla 5 to 5.5 cm. long, yellow, turning bluish 

 purple when dry, the tube long and slender, the 5 lobes subequal, spreading; 

 stamens 4; seeds 2 in each cell. "Ojo de buey" (Veracruz). 



2. HOLOQBAPHIS Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 728. 1847. 



Holographis (?) ilicifolia T. S. Brandeg.,i the only other species assigned to the 

 genus, has not been seen by the writer. 

 1. Holographis ehrenbergiana Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 728. 1847. 



Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosf to Puebla; type from Hacienda de Guadela. 



Slender shrub; leaves petiolate, elliptic-oblong to oblong-ovate or broadly ovate, 

 1 to 3 cm. long, obtuse or rounded at apex, acute or obtuse at base, scaberulous 

 above, whitish-puberulent beneath; flowers axillary, solitary or in few-flowered 

 clusters; calyx 5-parted, the lobes linear-lanceolate, 5 to 6 mm. long; corolla 

 about 1.5 cm. long, puberulent, the tube very short, the throat obconic, the 

 lobes of the limb subequal; stamens 4, the anthers lanate. 



3. RUELLIA L. Sp. PI. 634. 1753. 



Shrubs or more commonly herbs; leaves entire or serrulate; flowers large, 

 axillary, solitary, fasciculate, or cymose, the bracts usually narrow and incon- 

 spicuous; calyx 5-parted or deeply 5-lobate, the segments linear or lanceolate, 

 subequal; corolla tube straight or incurved, abruptly dilated into a campanulate 

 throat, the lobes spreading, subequal, contorted; stamens 4; capsule clavate or 

 oblong-linear, stipitate, the seeds usually 6 or more. 



Numerous herbaceous species occur in Mexico. 

 Corolla contracted at the mouth, the lobes small, 3 mm. long or less. 



Corolla glabrous 1. R. cupheoides. 



Corolla pilose 2. R. sororia. 



Corolla not contracted at the mouth, the lobes large. 



Leaves glabrous beneath. 



Leaves 1 to 3 cm. long; tube of the corolla shorter than the throat. 



3. R. peninsularis. 

 Leaves mostly 4 to 15 cm. long; tube of the corolla equaling or longer than 



the throat. 

 Calyx in anthesis 5 inm. long or less; capsule glabrous or nearly so. 



4. R. alboviolacea. 



1 Zoe 5: 236. 1906. 



