46 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
Monardella crispa, n. sp.—A low strongly aromatic shrub, 3°™ 
high, the lower woody branches numerous, giving it a small dense 
bush-like appearance; younger branches lanate pubescent, older ones 
with thin coarsely and irregularly checked bark: leaves sparsely 
lanate pubescent, somewhat succulent, fascicled at regular intervals, 
more strongly punctiform on the dorsal surface, the larger ones 
2-3°™ long and 1°™ wide, undulate or coarsely crisped along the 
margins below the rounded apex, oblong or narrowly oblanceolate 
with a long attenuate base; upper pair of leaves ovate to oblong, 
without the slenderly narrowed base: heads solitary upon the stems 
or branches or in a series of two or even three, sub-globose, 2-4°™ 
across, upon densely woolly scapes 2-5°™ long: bracts 1c™™ long, 
apex acute or rounded, thin, purplish, the 3-7 nerves conspicu- 
ously ascending, the outer surface scft pubescent, almost equaling 
the calyces, the exterior ones elliptic to broadly oblanceolate, the 
interior ones narrower and a trifle shorter: flowers 18™™ long, upon 
pedicels 1™™ long: calyx tubular, 6™™ long, woolly pubescent, 14- 
nerved, the 5 acute teeth 1™™ long: corolla 13™™ long, light pink, 
obscurely bilabiate; upper lip broad, deeply emarginate; lower one 
divided into 3 ligulate segments; exterior corolla tube 4™™ long, 
exceeding the calyx, sparsely set with fine short recurved hairs: 
stamens 4, spreading and much exserted: style included, bearing a 
short-lobed stigma. 
Surf, Santa Barbara county, California, May 1902. Type specimen, no. 
3965, in Herb. Stanford Universi rsity. 
This mint is a maritime species, and 3h Sent ee eines ee eee 
beaches. Without much doubt it may also the Santa Barbara 
Islands where the sea influence is strong. 
Monardella robusta, n. sp.—Faintly aromatic, tall, woody, 1-2™ 
high, prostrate or supported by other undergrowth: stem almost 
scape-like below, with a few branches toward the top, covered with a 
; thinly checked but not shredded bark; younger branches dark brown, 
- sparsely pubescent, usually terminated by a solitary head though 
often bearing smaller axillary ones beneath them: leaves opposite, 
the larger ones 5.5°™ long including the 5™™ long petiole, 15™™ 
_ wide, lanceolate, margins involute, coriaceous, nerves radiating 
from the midrib and ascending, prominent beneath, sunken above, 
entire, or eet oor’ vom ane or only sparsely 
