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angles, fastigiately 1-5-branched from above the middle, branches 
sparsely pubescent. Lower leaves entire, ascending, lanceolate, 
deciduous, the larger ones 4% long, plainly 3-nerved from near 
the base, puberulent on both sides, the uppermost with 2 narrow 
lateral lobes. Spike erect, 2° in diameter, cylindrical, not rigid, 
usually compact ; bracts short petioled, membranous, finely his- 
pid on the edges, elsewhere puberulent, apex of the upper ones 
rose-purple and nearly truncate, attenuate at base, with reticu- 
late veins between the 3 nerves, scarcely exceeding 1™ long 
and only 1° wide including the sharply acuminate lateral lobes 
3-5™™" long; flower short peduncled, in the axil of the bract ; 
calyx 7™™ long, somewhat saccate, hyaline except the 4 long 
ciliate nerves which terminate in delicate scabrous points 1™™ 
long; corolla tubular, bilabiate, 12™™ long, constricted just 
below the middle and bent upward, only the tips dull purple, 
conspicuously 12-nerved around the base; lower lip broadly 
obtuse, with 3 obsolete barely apiculate lobes, faintly canescent; 
upper lip slightly exceeding the lower, triangular, obscurely 
canescent, with a short blunt recurved apex; stamens 4, inserted 
on the corolla tube, mostly inclosed by the upper lip; anthers 2, 
oblong, 2-celled, the lower cell nearly equaling the upper; style 
equaling the stamens, the small stigma terminal; capsule puberu- 
lent, obovoid, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds not numerous, 
arranged on a central placenta, falcate, plump, 1.5™™ long, with 
narrow irregular corrugated wings. 
This species was collected by the author in the Olympic mountains, 
Clallam county, Washington, August, 1900, at an elevation of 1000 to 1500”. 
It seems to be rare, and in my opinion it is wholly unlike O. émbricatus Torr. 
in its smaller, less coriaceous, and broadly obtuse or truncate bracts. Type 
specimen (number 2574) is in the herbarium of Stanford University. 
HERBARIUM OF LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY. 
