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Specimens examined: North Fork, Mt. Pinos, altitude 6cxx) 

 feet, Hall 6461; north slope of Mt. Pinos, Hall 6405; Mt. Pinos, 

 Grinnell 16; Mt. Vxzz\g:x, Elmer jg^2; Argus Peak on rocky 

 slopes, Purpus ^o8g; Wild Rose canyon, Pananiint mountains, 

 Coville & Ftinston 204^. 



9. MONARDELLA HYPOLKUCA A. Gray, Svn. Fl. *l', pt. I, 356. 



1878. 



Monardella robusta Elmer, Bot. Gaz. :i9: 46. 1905. 



Madronella hypoleuca Greene, Leaflets 1: 116. 1906. 



Steins tufted, woody at base. 3 to 5 din. high, more 01 less 

 tomentose: leaves ovate-oblong, 2 to 4 cm. long, obtuse, entire, 

 slightly rcvolute, densely while lomeuiose beneath, glabrous and 

 shiny above, veins evident, impressed k>\\ upper surface: brads 

 /broadly ovate-, obtuse, 1 cm. long, tomentose, calyx villous, its 

 teeth triangular-subulate: coralla pale. 



Type locality. "S. E. California, San Bernardino Co." 



Distribution: Coastal mountains of southern California from 

 Santa Barbara to Orange county. 



Specimens examined: Rattlesnake catnon near Santa Bar- 

 bara, Elmer 3728; Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara, Abrams 

 4149; Topango canyon, Santa Monica mountains, Hasse. Janu- 

 ary, 1906; San Juan Hot Springs. Nevin, 1882. 



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10. Monardella lauata sp. nov. 



Stems tufted, woody at base, 2 to 4 dm. high, villous pubes- 

 cent: leaves narrowh- oblanceolate, appearing linear on account 

 of the strongly revolute margins, 15 to 3omnK long, sessile or 

 short petioled, with .shorter ones fascicled in their axils, soft 

 villous abo\e, hoary beneath with a den>e tomentum, thick, lat- 

 eral veins not at all evident: heads about 2 cm. broad: bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous, villon-, equaling the calyx: calyx 

 8 mm. long, lo-nerved, villous throughout, teeth triangular-sub- 

 ulate, 1.5 mm. long: corolla white, tube 10 mm. long, jmbescent, 

 lobes 4 mm. long: filaments sparsely pubescent. 



Related to hvpoleuca, from which it is distinguished by the 

 much narrower .-ind thicker leave.-, the ab-Nence of lateral im- 



