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Anisacanthus greggii A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2': 328. 1878. 



San Luis Potosi to Michoacdn. 



Low shrub with exfoliating bark; leaves lanceolate or lanceovate, short- 

 petiolate, 4 cm. long or less, cinereous-pilose beneath or finally glabrate; calyx 

 about 6 mm. long; corolla 4 to 4.5 cm. long, puberulent. 



5. Anisacanthus insignis A. Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2. 2': 457. 1886. 

 Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Durango. Western Texas. 



Shrub; leaves short-petiolate, linear to narrowly lanceolate (on young sterile 

 shoots sometimes lance-ovate and long-petiolate) , 2 to 3 cm. long, puberulent or 

 glabrate; flowers pedicellate; calyx 6 to 7 mm. long; corolla rose-red or salmon- 

 colored, pilosulous. 



The writer has seen no material of A. tulensis Greenm.', which was described 

 from Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca. Its description agrees well with specimens 

 of A. insignis, but it may be a distinct species. 



6. Anisacanthus wrightii (Torr.) A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2> : 328. 1878. 

 Drejera wrightii Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 123. 1859. 



Coahuila and Zacatecas to Tamaulipas. Western Texas; type collected 

 between the Guadalupe River and the Rio Grande. 



Shrub, about 1 meter high, the branches puberulent in lines; leaves short- 

 petiolate, linear to ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 4.5 cm. long, acuminate, glabrous or 

 nearly so; flowers sessile; corolla puberulent or pilosulous. "Muicle" (Tamau- 

 lipas). 



The plant is employed in Tamaulipas as a remedy for colic. 



7. Anisacanthus quadrifldus (Vahl) Standi. 



Justicia coccinea Cav. Icon. PI. 2: pi. 199. 1793. Not /. coccinea Aubl. 1775. 



Justicia quadrifida Vahl, Enum. PI. 1: 124. 1804. 



Justicia virgularis Salisb. Parad. Lond. pi. 50. 1806-07. 



Anisacanthus virgularis Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 445. 1847. 



Drejera puberula Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 123. 1859. 



Drejera juncea Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 124. 1859. 



Anisacanthus junceus Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 522. 1882. 



San Luis Potosi to Puebla and Oaxaca. 



Shrub, about 1 meter high; leaves short-petiolate or subsessile, linear to 

 lanceolate, 2 to 5 cm. long, long-acuminate, glabrous or nearly so: corolla red, 

 pilosulous or puberulent. 



• 12. NEOHALLIA Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 519. 1882. 



A single species is known. 

 1. Neohallia borrerae Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 519. 1882. 



Veracruz and Chiapas; type from Chiapas. 



Plants large, probably shrubby, glabrous; leaves oblong-oblanceolate, 20 to 

 35 cm. long, acuminate, attenuate to the base, short-petiolate, entire; flowers in 

 pedunculate clusters of 2 or 3, the large bracts about 6 cm. long, cuplike; calyx 

 tubular, subequally 5-dentate; corolla about 7 cm. long, the tube slender, 

 slightly incurved, the limb bilabiate, the posterior lip erect, narrow, subemargi- 

 nate, the lower short and 3-dentate; stamens 2, the anther cells unequal. 



13. TABASCINA Baill. Hist. PI. 10: 445. 1891. 



The single species of the genus is known to the writer only from description. 

 1. Tabascina lindeni Baill. Hist. PI. 10: 445. 1891. 



Mexico, the locality not indicated, but (judging from the generic name) prob- 

 ably in Tabasco. 



I Field Mus. Bot. 2: 343. 1912. 

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