320 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MAY 
base subcordate: ovary sessile, densely pubescent: style 1™™ long, 
cleft into 2 recurved arms, terete, glabrous, persistent; stigma ter- 
minal, capitate: capsule 4™™ in diameter, globular, sparsely ciliate: 
seeds compressed, carunculate. 
Type specimen no. 4991, collected in May 1903, on Fremont’s Peak of the 
Gabilan mountains, San Benito County, California. 
It was observed only at the very summit of the peak, among the moss-covered 
rocks, 
Monardella franciscana, n. sp.—A sprawling suffrutescent peren- 
nial: lower stems reclining on the ground or in dense herbaceous 
thickets, woody, one or more meters long; the leaf-bearing upper 
stems usually clustered, herbaceous, woolly pubescent, 2 to 3° long, 
erect or decumbent near the base: leaves opposite, mostly fascicled, 
very variable in size, densely woolly pubescent on both sides especially 
beneath; the larger upper ones 2 to 3°™ long including the 5™™ long 
petiole, 2°™ wide near the base, broadly ovate, entire or with a few 
obscure teeth, the edges recurved; the lower or axillary ones sessile, 
lanceolate to elliptic-obovate: inflorescence capitate; heads densely 
flowered, terminal, rarely more than one, 3 to 4°™ in diameter, sub- 
tended by a whorl of pubescent leaf-like bracts equaling or exceed- 
ing the flowers; flowers upon stout short pedicels: calyx about 8™™ 
long, the marginal ones usually curved upward, conspicuously 11 to 
15-nerved, silky pubescent except near the base, tubular, equally 
5-toothed; the teeth acute, 1.5™™ in length: corolla blue or light 
pink, funnel-shaped, the longest 2°™, strigose about the middle, 
glabrous toward the base, bilabiate; upper lip 5™™ long, erect or 
straight, apex 2-lobed; lower lip divided into 3 linear segments, 
equaling the upper lip, usually deflexed: stamens 4, fertile, moder- 
ately unequal, exserted and spreading; filaments slender, glabrous, 
inserted at the corolla throat or a trifle beneath it; anthers attached 
to the base, the cells somewhat recurved: style equaling the stamens, 
glabrous; stigma minute, terminal; ovary glabrous, distinctly 
4-lobed. 
Type specimen no. 4766, collected at San Pedro, San Mateo County, Cali- 
fornia, July 1903. 
It was repeatedly observed in dense herbaceous growths in the ravines on 
the coast from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, and is a distinct seacoast species. 
