Figwort Family 361 



posterior are united higher; anthers opening widely, splitting 

 through the apex. 



Common in the foothills and mountains mostly below the pine belt 

 throughout our range. April-July. 



*- Corolla-tube dilated. 



"5. P. spectabilis Thurber. Pale or glaucescent and glabrous 

 throughout, 6-12 dm. high; leaves thinnish-coriaceous, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate or the lower oblong, acute, the upper pairs acu- 

 minate and their broad bases connate-perfoliate, spinulosely den- 

 tate or denticulate; thyrsus many-flowered, elongated pyramidal 

 or sometimes virgate, 3-6 dm. long; peduncles and pedicels slen- 

 der; corolla rose-purple or lilac with the ample limb blue, 2.5cm. 

 long ; the narrow proper tube twice the length of the short ovate 

 calyx-lobes, then abruptly dilated into the campanulate-ventricose 

 or broadly funnelform throat, somewhat bilabiate, the oval or 

 roundish lobes 6-8 mm. long; sterile filament glabrous; anthers 

 dehiscent from the base toward but not to the apex. 



Frequent on dry hillsides. May-July. 



6. P. Parishii Gray. Size and habit of the last ; leaves entire 

 or minutely denticulate ; upper clasping by subcordate base but 

 not connate; corolla red, more dilated. 



Not known within our limits. Cucamonga ; San Bernardino. 



7. P. Palmeri Gray. Stems 6-9 dm. high ; glabrous except 

 inflorescence, that glandular or primose-puberulent ; leaves cori- 

 aceous, glaucous, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, from sharply dentate 

 to nearly entire, upper from closely sessile to completely con- 

 nate-perfoliate ; thyrsus elongated pyramidal, racemiform ; corolla 

 cream-white, suffused with pink; the short narrow proper tube 

 hardly surpassing the ovate appressed sepals, very abruptly 

 dilated into the ventricose-campanulate throat, about 2 cm. long 

 and as broad at orifice; the lips broad, the upper erect, 2-lobed, 

 lower 3-lobed, widely spreading, sparingly bearded at base ; sterile 

 filament densely bearded above with long yellowish hairs. 



Occasional above 5000 feet in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Moun- 

 tains. 



** Anther-cells remaining closed below and saccate. 



8. P. heterophyllus Lindl. Green, seldom glaucescent, gla- 

 brous throughout or rarely primose-puberulent ; stems or branches 



