(116) 
underneath, the margin revolute; racemes axillary, 2.5—5 cm. long 
in fruit, peduncled, the fruits pase ew, on pe stout, recurved 
pedicels; frviting calyx 6 mm. broad, ding, the lobes broad, 
unequal; fruit globose or Tee Doce ee long, deep purple, 
6-7 m a ad. 
“A bush 1o ft. high; hills back of Mollendo, Peru, 2000 it., 
Aug. 5, 1901”? (No. 2544). 
Lippia pendula sp. nov. 
Velvety-hairy; branches long, slender, strongly ascending, 
somewhat ee longest petioles 1 ong, stou 
blades 1.5-6 cm. long, 8-30 mm. broad, oval or ovate, barely 
acute, rounde at to su ie ‘cordate at the bas e, finely crenate, thick, 
deep-green above, gray beneath, the u ee surface finely bullate, 
some a little longer, the are bbe: acute scales closely imbri- 
cated; flower 5 mm. long, the ovoid "pilose calyx one-third the 
length of the corolla- ee “its langue teeth very small; corolla 
tracted; the eau limb abruptly expanded, 2 mm. broad, with 
rounded lobes 
“A slender bad, 8 ft. high; Apolo, 4800 it., Feb. 27, 1902” 
(No. 307). No. 96, from the same locality, Feb. 23, is the same, 
as is No. 162, from the same locality, collected April 16, the leaves 
larger than those of the others. 
Species very near L. ortganoides H.B.K 
LABIATAE 
Mesosphaerum grandiflorum sp. nov 
inely scabrous; branchlets obrusely quadrangular, sulcate; 
petioles (only upper seen) 4-6 cm. long, stout, widely spreading, 
eae costate; blades 8-16 cm. long, on cm. ee are 
peduncled, 5-10 cm. broad, very dense, oe a oad ie oe 
ae ek slender, longer than the calyx, thickened upward, 
recurved in fruit; calyx- ‘tube 6 mm. long, nearly 2 mm. broad at 
the summit, slightl narrowed oan a 10-ribbed, bright 
‘ : 
corolla-tube about a half longer than the calyx, the limb abruptly 
spreading; stamens slightly, the style long exserted. 
