December 30, 1907 3' 7 



flowers reduced to sessile bracts, the lowest broadly lanceolate, 

 barely acute, as loii"; as or long^er than the flowers, the otliers 

 gradually reduced and becoming obovate, the uppermost shorter 

 than the calyx: flowering rachis r to 2 dm. long: flowers vet y 

 shortly pedicelled, the whorls remote, the lowermost 2 or 3 cm. 

 apart, gradually becoming closer toward the summit: calyx nar- 

 rowly campanulate, 6 mm. long, hirsute with rather long spread- 

 ing hairs with shorter ones beneath, rather prominently 10- 

 nerved, the lobes somewhat unequal, about 2 mm. long, triangu- 

 lar, acute, spinescent tipped: corollas 12 mm. long, shortly pu- 

 bescent externally, pinkish mottled with darker dots, the tube 

 slightly exserted from the calyx, at base 3 nnn. wide for an equal 

 length, above that widening to 4 mm. from a blunt spur-like 

 base on the lower side, the hairy ring on the inside extending 

 obliquely upward from the base of the spur; upper lip concave, 

 3 mm. across, the apex rounded, entire; lower lip about 5 mm. 

 wide, the lower edges of the terminal lobe downcurved, the 

 broad rounded apex somewhat upcurved, the lateral loles also 

 downcurved, especially at apex, the whole when spread out 8 mm. 

 long, 7 mm. wide, the lateral lobes not protruding and the open- 

 ing between the lobes completely closed: stamens inserted at the 

 top of the throat, 2 mm. shorter than the upper lip, densely 

 woolly in the lower half: style equaling the stamens, 2-lobed at 

 apex, the lobes diverging. 



The type, in my herbarium, is no. 8581, collected May 28, 

 1907, about^three miles beyond San ISIateo, San Mateo county, 

 California, on the Half Moon Bay road, elevation 300 feet, in 

 rather bare gravelly ground along the roadside, the exposure 

 northerly. The leaves are roughened above with scattered short 

 appressed clear hairs, the under side sparingly covered with 

 shorter hairs of the same kind especially the veins, the margins 

 shortly ciliate. It is a member of the medly of plants called 

 Stachys biillata in the Synoptical Flora. The type of that spe- 

 cies is densely villous, has approximate whorls, and the calyx 

 teeth are not awn pointed. 



