1348 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HEEBARIUM 



5. Justicia mexicana Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 348. 1895. 



Sonora and Sinaloa; type from Agiabampo, Sonora. 



Slender shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, the branches pubescent or glabrate; leaves 

 slender-petiolate, lanceolate or ovate, 4 to 10 cm. long, acuminate, acute or obtuse 

 at base, sparsely pubescent or glabrate; flowers in terminal and axillary clusters; 

 corolla red, 3 to 3.5 cm. long. " Mitle cimarron" (Sinaloa). 



This species and»/. palmeri should probably be referred to the genus Beloperone. 



16. SIPHONOQLOSSA Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 1854: 159. 



1855. 



Several herbaceous species occur in Mexico. 

 1. Siphonoglossa pringlei (Robins. & Greenm.) Lindau, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 

 662. 1897. 



Carlowrightia pringlei Robns. & Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 32: 50. 1896. 



Oaxaca; type from Tomellin Canyon, altitude 1,050 meters. 



Slender shrub, 1 to 1.5 meters high; leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1.5 

 to 3 cm. long, acuminate, obtuse or rounded at base, petiolate, entire, glabrous or 

 nearly so; flowers in slender interrupted spikes, the bracts small, subulate; calyx 

 5-cleft, the lobes linear-subulate, glandular-pubescent; corolla purplish, about 

 2 cm. long, the tube slender, equaling the 4 subequal lobes; stamens 2, the anther 

 cells slightly unequal. 



17. BELOPERONE Nees in Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar. 3: 76. 1832. 



Shrubs or herbs; leaves usually entire; flowers usually red, fasciculate in the 

 axils of bracts or cymose, sometimes in terminal thyrses, the bracts small or large; 

 calyx 5-parted, the segments narrow; corolla tube slender, elongate, scarcely 

 ampliate above, the limb deeply bilabiate, the posterior lobes narrow, erect, 

 entire or shallowly bilobate, the anterior one 3-lobate; stamens 2, the anther cells 

 unequal, the lower one mucronate at base; ovules 2 in each cell. 



Several herbaceous species occur in Mexico. 

 Branches glabrous or obscurely and sparsely puberulent. 



Bracts much shorter than the calyx; leaves acute or acuminate. 1. B. fragilis. 



Bracts longer than the calyx; leaves obtuse 2. B. raacrantha. 



Branches densely pilose or whitish-tomentulose. 



Flowers borne in the axils of reduced leaves; seeds rugose 3. B. purpusii. 



Flowers in naked racemes; seeds smooth 4. B. californica. 



1. Beloperone fragilis Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 27: 183. 1892. 

 Type from Las Canoas, San Luis Potosi. 



Shrub, 1 to 1.5 meters high, the branches nearly glabrous; leaves petiolate, 

 ovate, 4 to 7 cm. long, obtuse or rounded at base, barbate beneath along the costa, 

 elsewhere glabrate; flowers in axillary or terminal, naked, secund spikes; calyx 

 4 mm. long; corolla reddish, 2.5 cm. long, pubescent. 



2. Beloperone macrantha (Oerst.) Benth. & Hook.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. 



Bot. 2: 516. 1882. 

 Beloperonoides macrantha Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 1854: 162. 



pi. 4, f. 36. 1855. 

 Type from Trapiche de la Concepci6n, Oaxaca. 



Shrub, the branches puberulent in lines; leaves petiolate, lance-elliptic, about 

 7 cm. long, attenuate at base, crenulate toward the apex, glabrous; flowers termi- 

 nal, fasciculate, sessile; calyx 8 mm. long; bracts spatulate; corolla puberulent, 5.5 

 cm. long. 



Known to the writer only from description. 



