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463. Priva echinata Juss. — San Jose del Cabo. 



464. iVvicENNiA NiTiDA Jacq. — Sometimes a small 

 tree fifteen feet high. — La Paz. 



465. Hyptis tephrodes Gray. — Todos Santos, La 

 Paz, San Jose del Cabo. 



466. Hyptis i.aniflora Benth. Todos Santos, La 

 Paz, San Jose del Cabo. 



467. Hyptis Emoryi Torr. — San Jose del Cabo. 



468. Hyptis collina. Herbaceous from a perennial 

 root; stems clustered, slender, quandrangular, striate, 

 minutely pubescent : internodes twice the length of the 

 leaves or more: leaves ovate, rather deeply and often 

 doubly crenate-serrate, very minutely brownish-pubescent 

 above and below, i>^-2i/< cm. long, on slender petioles 

 from % to Yt, their length: inflorescence axillary, race- 

 mose; heads small, 6-io-flowered on peduncles longer 

 than their diameter; bracts short, subulate: calyx nearly 

 sessile, turbinate, equal, nearly glabrous, lO-nerved and 

 reticulate ; the teeth very short and surpassed by the 

 dense, white, silky hairs fringing the inner margin: corolla 

 purple, the tube twice longer than the calyx; middle lobe 

 of the anterior lip Httle differing from the others : stamens 

 very slightly exceeding the tube : style bifid, anterior lobe 

 of the disk produced: calyx in fruit equal, patent; the 

 mouth filled by the silky-ciliate fringe. — San Jose del 

 Cabo; called by the inhabitants " Salvia por la Mesa." 



469. Mp:ntha Canadensis L. — Sierra de la Laguna. 



470. Micromeria Brownei Benth. — This plant was 

 collected at Juncal beyond the limits of the Cape Region. 



471. Sphacele hastata Gray. — Sierra de la Laguna 

 and Sierra de San Francisquito. There are two deserted 

 old ranches in these high mountains, and in their imme- 

 diate vicinity this plant is very abundant and seems to be 



