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Shrub, 1 meter high, the branches glabrous; leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 

 8 to 12 cm. long, long-acuminate, acute at base, entire, glabrous; peduncles 

 several-flowered; calyx lobes linear-subulate; corolla about 3.5 cm. long, white 

 with violet center, the throat 1 cm. broad, obscurely puberulent outside. 



5. Ruellia albiflora Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 33: 92. 1897. 

 Colima to Oaxaca; type from Acapulco, Guerrero. 



Shrub, about 1 meter high, the branches glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate to 

 narrowly ovate, 4 to 16 cm. long, acuminate, acute to attenuate at base, entire; 

 flowers white, sessile or uearlj^ so in the axils; calyx 10 to 12 mm. long, the lobes 

 linear-subulate; corolla 3 to 3.5 cm. long, puberulent, the throat 5 to 6 mm. 

 broad. "Tronador" (Guerrero). 



6. Ruellia albicaulis Bert.; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2: 822. 1825. 



Sinaloa to Oaxaca, Yucatdn, and Veracruz. Central America and northern 

 South America; type from Cartagena, Colombia. 



Plants suff^rutescent, about a meter high, the branches glandular-pilose, the 

 older ones whitish; leaves long-petiolate, lance-oblong to ovate, 13 cm. long or 

 less, acuminate, acute or short-decurrent at base, usually denticulate or serrulate, 

 hispidulous; flowers in loose axillary cymes, slender-pedicellate; calyx glandular- 

 pilose, the lobes linear, 1 to 1.5 cm. long; corolla purplish, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, the 

 throat 4 to 5 mm. thick. "Hierba del cabro," "chancho del monte" (El 

 Salvador) . 



The plant exhales a very strong and offensive goatlike odor. 



7. Ruellia speciosa (Nees) Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 4^'^: 310. 



1895. 



Ophthalmacanthus speciosus Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 220. 1847. 



Ruellia pulcherrima T. Anderson; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 507. 1882. 



Hidalgo, Mexico, Puebla, and Oaxaca; type from Baiios de Atoto el Grande. 



Shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, the young branches glandular-pilosulous; leaves 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, 4 to 7.5 cm. long, acute or short-acuminate, rounded or 

 obtuse at base, entire, short-pilose and viscid, densely so beneath; peduncles 

 elongate, 1 to 3-flowered; calyx 2.5 to 3 cm. long, the lobes lance-linear; corolla 

 pale yellow, about 6 cm. long. 



8. Ruellia bourgaei Hemsl. Diag. PI. Mex. 35. 1879. 



Jalisco to Veracruz and Mexico; type from mountains near Guadalupe, Mexico, 

 Plants large and coarse, herbaceous or perhaps suffrutescent, the stems densely 

 glandular-pubescent; leaves 8 to 21 cm. long, acuminate, rounded to truncate at 

 base and abruptly long-decurrent, sinuate-dentate, densely pubescent or some- 

 times glabrate; flowers pink, cj'mose-paniculate; calyx 2.5 to 3 cm. long; corolla 

 9 to 11 cm. long, the throat about 4 cm. broad. 



9. Ruellia palmeri Greenm. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 343. 1912. 

 Ruellia montezumae Lindau, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 12: 424. 1913. 

 Guerrero and Oaxaca; type from Acapulco, Guerrero. 



Shrub, 1 to 2.5 meters high, the branches viscid-puberulent; leaves 5 to 15 cm. 

 long, acuminate, acute to rounded at base, entire, gland-dotted, puberulent or 

 glabrate; peduncles few-flowered; calyx 2 to 2.5 cm. long; corolla 7 to 8.5 cm. 

 long, creamy white, the throat about 3 cm. broad. 



10. Ruellia jaliscana Standi., sp. nov. 



T^fpe collected between Mascota and San Sebastian, Jalisco {Nelson 4051; 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 327151). 



Branches obtusely quadrangular, tomentulose, glandular-pilosulous above; 

 leaves petiolate, broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, 9 to 18 cm. long, abruptly short- 

 acuminate, rounded at base and abruptly decurrent, shallowly sinuate-dentate, 

 villous-hirsutulous with whitish hairs;- flowers cj'mose-paniculate, the peduncles 



