226 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



715. Aphyllon sp. — Dried stalks of a species that is 

 probably A. Cooperi Gray, from the Sierra de la Laguna. 



456. DiANTiiERA iNCERTA. — Perennial, suffriiticose, 

 tufted, 1-2 dm. high, hirsute-pubescent; stems channeled: 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire, sessile or very shortly- 

 petioled, somewhat cordate: flowers usually 2 in the leafy 

 axils: bractlets narrowly -lanceolate, shorter than the 

 calyx: calyx 4 mm. long, cleft ^ its length into four 

 linear-lanceolate segments: corolla purplish, 10-15 mm. 

 long, the linear tube longer than the nearly equally 4-lobed 

 limb ; upper lip entire, somewhat galeate, lower lip deeply 

 3-parted, saccate-protuberant in the throat: stamens in- 

 serted in the throat, much shorter than the corolla-lobes : 

 anthers nearly equal but oblique, both mucronulate at 

 base and the upper one at apex: style pubescent below, 

 sterile base of capsule one - third its length ; retinacula 

 obtuse; seeds glabrous, rugose. 



The species is somewhat intermediate between Sipho- 

 noglossa and Dianthera, having the mucronulate anthers 

 of the former and the oblique connective belonging to the 

 latter. San Bartolome and slopes of the mountains above 

 Agua Caliente. 



716. BiGNONiA sp. — CUmbing to the top of the Acacias. 

 Leaves bifoliate, with no prolongation of the petiole ; fruit 

 a foot or more long. It was long past flowering. Mira- 

 flores. 



717. Hyptis sp. — A bush with curving branches and 

 a long densely-flowered terminal thyrsus. San Jose del 

 Cabo. 



718. Plantago Patagonica Jacq. — Sierra de la La- 

 guna. 



719. Polygonum acre HBK. — San Jose del Cabo 

 and in the mountains. 



720. Parietaria DEBiLisForster. — San Jose del Cabo. 



