Figwort Family 363 



2. C. tinctoria Hartweg. Kesembling slender forms of the 

 preceding in habit; herbage nearly or quite glabrous below, 

 strongly viscid above and giving off a brownish stain ; calyx-lobes 

 linear or oblong-linear, obtuse; corolla pale purplish or nearly 

 white and streaked with purple, 12-15 mm. long, the lobes of the 

 upper lip very short, reflexed. 



Frequent on shady slopes in the upper portions of the chaparral belt of 

 the San G abriel Mountains. April-June. 



** Flowers usually scattered, small; filaments glabrous. 



3. C. Paryi Gray. Stems puberulent throughout, simple or 

 more or less branched, 1.5-2.5 dm. high; leaves thinnish, the 

 lower oblong, crenate, petioled, the upper lanceolate-linear, ob- 

 tuse, mostly entire and closely sessile, 2-4 cm. long; pedicels 

 solitary or the upper in 2's or 3's, as long as or the lowest exceed- 

 ing the flowers; calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse; corolla deep blue, 

 6-8 mm. long, twice the length of the calyx, the lips about equal 

 in length, not longer than the throat; capsule about equaling the 

 calyx. 



Occasional in dry ground in the chaparral belt. Verdugo Hills. 



4. C. callosa Parish. Stems dichotomously branched, 10-30 

 cm. high, glabrous except the slightly glandular pedicels and 

 calyces; leaves opposite or ternate, oblong to acutely ovate, 2 cm. 

 long or less, the upper much reduced, sessile, entire, rather thick, 

 the margins somewhat revolute; calyx-lobes broadly lanceolate, 

 acute; corolla light blue, 5-8 mm. long; the lips about equaling 

 the moderately gibbous throat, their lobes entir.e, equal in length ; 

 capsule globose, shorter than the calyx-lobes. 



First collected in Swartout Canyon, San Antonio Mountains, Hall; Mt. 

 Gleason, Elmer. ' 



j. 7. DIPLACUS Nutt. 



Low evergreen glutinous shrubs, with opposite leaves 

 which are revolute in the bud, and large red, orange or 

 salmon-colored flowers, solitary in the axils. Calyx tub- 

 ular, 5-angled and 5-toothed. Corolla with funnelform 

 tube and rather broad bilabiate limb. Stamens 4. 

 Stigma of 2 flat lobes closing together when irritated. 



