310 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MAY 
Type specimen collected in May 1903, by Miss Laura M. Lathrop at Her. 
nandez, San Benito County, California. 
This species can be distinguished readily by its reticulately nerved, broadly 
ovate, and ciliate mature calyx lobes, not unlike the bracts of Acanthomintha 
ilicijolia Gray. 
Trichostema rubisepalum, n. sp.—Erect annual, 2 to 3° high: 
stems chiefly branched from near the base, the branches usually in 
pairs and ascending, soit pilose and glandular, the lower ones becom- 
ing reddish: leaves cauline, opposite, entire, subsessile, linear- 
lanceolate, pilose on both sides and finely glandular, acute or acumi- 
nate, 2°™ long or longer, about 5™™ wide: inflorescence in axillary 
short-pedunculate cymes; flowers blue, solitary, on 2 or 3 glandular 
pubescent pedicels, subtended by linear bracts: calyx united below 
the middle, bristly pilose and somewhat glandular, about 6™™ long; _ 
the 5 subequal segments straight, acute, ultimately turning to a pink 
or light purple: corolla exceeding the calyx, 7™™ long, curved, 
pilose, throat oblique; its segments also pilose, thin, obscurely 
bilabiate; upper lip somewhat shorter and 2-segmented; lower one 
with 3 segments: anthers much exceeding the corolla, in two pairs 
of unequal lengths; filaments curved, equaling the tube, slender, 
glabrous, apparently adnate to the entire length of the thin corolla 
tube; anther cells united toward the apexonly, attached dorsally 
to the filament, ovoid, the base ultimately much spreading: style 
glabrous, filiform, recurved, equaling the shorter stamens and insert- 
ed in the depression of the ovary lobes; ovary short pubescent, 
deeply 4-lobed: seeds amphitropous. 
pe specimen collected by Miss Laura M. Lathrop at Hernandez, San Ben- 
ito County, California, August 1go2. 
This is closely related to T. laxum Gray, but distinguished by its lang pilose 
and glandular pubescence, sessile or subsessile leaves, and by its usually pilose 
corolla. The tips of the sepals soon turn red. 
Collinsia Hernandezii, n. sp.—Annual, 10 to 20°™ high: stems 
branched from the base, central ones erect, the outer reclining, soft 
yellowish pubescent, glandular: leaves cauline, opposite, oblong to 
oblanceolate, the larger ones 4°™ long, 1.5°™ wide, apex obtusely 
rounded, gradually tapering at the base to a 1°™ long pubescent 
petiole, margins entire, short and dirty glandular pubescent on both 
sides, rather thick, the 3 to 5 obscure nerves parallel; upper leaves 
