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457. Lantana involucrata L. — Sierra de la La- 

 guna. 



458. LippiA Palmeri Watson. — Miraflores. 



459. LippiA nodiflora Mx. — San Jose del Cabo. 



460. LipPiA FORMOSA. Shrubby. 2-4 mm. high, 

 scabrous, pubescent: leaves opposite, obovate-cuneate, 

 coarsely crenate, dentate, prominently pinnately-veined, 

 rugose, 2-25^ cm. long, scabrous above, but the pubes- 

 cence longer and softer below : peduncles axillary, twice 

 as long as the leaves: heads 2-2^ cm. broad: bracts 

 membranaceous, minutely pubescent, reticulate-veined, 

 light rose-colored, cordate, 10-15 mm. long and broad, 

 the outer acute, the inner ones obtuse: calyx 2-cleft, 

 densely white, long pubescent: corolla light rose-colored, 

 6 mm. long, tube twice the length of the calyx, ampliate 

 above: fruit 2-3 mm. long, nutlets easily separable, 



A common bush with rather showy flowers, growing 

 on the hills about Todos Santos. It is related to the 

 Brazilian species of Schauer's section Rhodolippia. 



461. LiPPiA MONTANA. Shrubby, 1-2 mm. high, 

 sparingly pubescent: leaves opposite, rugose, oblong- 

 ovate, 20—30 mm. long, pustulate-scabrous above, mi- 

 nutely scabrous below, serrate-dentate, the dentations tei- 

 minated by bristles ; petioles }a the length of the leaves : 

 inflorescence of axillary short-peduncled heads at the 

 ends of the branches; heads about 2 cm. in diameter: 

 bracts herbaceous, 3-nerved, oblong-acuminate: calyx 

 2-parted, long-pubescent, 2 mm. long: corolla yellow, 

 reddening in age ; tube amplia.te above, three times the 

 length of the calyx: nutlets easily separable. — Foothills 

 of Sierra de la Laguna, San Jose del Cabo, San Barto- 

 lome. 



462. CiTHAREXYLUM, sp. near C. villosnin. — Mira- 

 flores. 



