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Su GLLOssA* LONGIFLORA, Gray (Syn. FI. 1, p.328).—Low, uniformly 
pubescent; leaves opposite, on short petioles, rhombic-ovate to lanceolate, 
thickish, 6-18’ long; petiole 2-4” long; flowers yellowish-white; tube very 
slender, 8-12” long; stamens included; filaments membranaceous, a little 
longer than the anther; style very slender, much exceeding the flower, 
evidently 2-lipped; capsule dark brown, oval; seeds with the margin dis - 
tinctly notched at the point of attachment—Specimen was a mere frag- 
ment. Cienega, Southern Arizona (573). 
Anisacantuust pumitus, Nees (Drejera puberula, Torr. in Bot. Mex. 
Bound. p. 121; and Watson in 1874 Report, p. 15).—‘The pubescent 
branches distichous; leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, puberu- 
lent, short-petioled; the short leafy spikes axillary and terminal; the deeply 
5-cleft calyx glandular-pubescent, the lobes linear-subulate; tube of the 
corolla narrow, many times longer than the calyx, inferior lip 3-parted, the 
lobes lanceolate-linear. Corolla18” long, purplish-red Capsule smooth, 6-7” 
long, the upper half rhombic-ovate and seminiferous, the lower attenuated 
to a narrow stipe and empty. Shrub 4-8° high.”—Arizona. I have not 
seen the specimen, and have quoted largely from Bot. Mex. Bound. / ¢. 
Dicupterat resupinata, Juss —Stem erect, simple or much branched 
from a woody base; leaves opposite, glabrous to slightly pubescent, lance- 
olate to oblong, on a slender petiole, which is 3-6” long; inflorescence in a 
compound cymose umbel, with the common peduncle as long as or exceed- 
* Sr1pHONOGLOsSA, Erst.—Calyx 4-5-parted, the short segments narrow. Corolla-tube elongated, 
narrowly cylindrical, slightly or not at all dilated above; limb spreeding, 2-lipped, the posterior lip 
interior, entire or 2-cleft, the other widely spreading, 3-cleft. Stamens 2, affixed near the apex of the 
tube; anthers 2-celled, with one cell higher than the other ; cells somewhat sharp pointed or spurred ; 
stam ‘seit none. Style filiform, the obtuse apex with 2 short lobes; 2 ovules in either cell. ipwais 
oblong, contracted at the base into a solid stipe. sacra 4, or by abortion fewer, suborbicular, compressed 
marginate, tnberculate-rugose; p Sub-shrubby [ or herbaceous], low, spreading, 
escent. ag ovate, entire. The subsessile flowers solitary in the axils. The linear bracts short.— 
BeNTH. & 
Paice, Nees.—Shrub, posterior lobes of the imbricated corolla interior in the bud, Oval 
capsule elevated on a conspicuous stipe; ova ules two in each cell, ea to the placental processes by 
the edge; seeds flat; stamens two; anther cells rate ‘ae ual; rudimerts 
DicuipTerA, Juss.— Bracts a pair, valvateiy ‘useing 1-3 enone buds. Corolla tubular, 
bilabiate ; the upper age ote in the bud, flat or concave, emarginate o- entire; the lower ee 
toothed or lobed. Stamens 2: anthers with 2 cells, one higher than the other, both pointless. Capsu 
short, flattened oe tc the partition, 4-seeded, the base seedless and stalk- like, the strong processes 
that bear the seeds curving upward and becoming hook-like at dehiscence. Seeds flat.—Mostly herbs ; 
with 6-angled stems, broadish and petioled leaves, and either scattered or clustered flowers: mainly trop- 
ical, two or three species reaching the United States.’ "_F1. Cal vol. 1, p. 589. 
