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line: leaves ovate-oblong^, the largest lower ones about i dm, 

 long-, 5 cm. wide below, 2 cm. wide across the rounded top, 

 thickish but not firm, rather coarsely crenate, veins prominent 

 on both sides, the base rounded or truncate, somewhat oblique; 

 petioles .stout, 2 cm. long-, 4 mm. wide, channeled above, strongly 

 ribbed below by the pale midrib, the base slightly connate- 

 clasping, pubescent like the stems, the upper ones gradually be- 

 coming shorter, the uppermost obsolete or nearly so: inflores- 

 cence 1-2 dm. long, the lower internodes 3-4 cm. long, the others 

 successively shorter: whorls normally six flowered: calyx 5 mm. 

 long, narrow below, campani:late above, where it is 4 mm. 

 across, the triangular, acute lobes i mm. or a little more in 

 length, each armed with a prominent slender innocuous cusp, 

 the whole densely soft pubescent, including the inner face of the 

 lobes: corollas i cm. long, the tube exserted 2 nnn. beyond the 

 calyx, prominently spurred on tlie lov/er side, densely bearded 

 at the middle on the inside with a horizontal ring of hairs; 

 lower lip nearly white external]}-, the inside marked v.ith short 

 purple lines, large, 6 mm. long and as wide acro.ss the lateral 

 lobes wliich droop slightly, the rounded terminal lobe about 5 

 ram. wide, 3 mm. long, rounded and slightly upcurved at the 

 end, otherwise nearly plane; bearded near the middle on the 

 outside, merely puberulent in the throat; upper lip erect, 

 strongly arched above the stamens, 4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide at 

 the top, a little narrower below, purplish and pubescent outside 

 as well as somewhat glandular near the apex: filaments lined 

 with purple; anthers brownish. Described from the living 

 plant. 



No. 7510, collected June 15, 1904, in moi.st places in a field 

 on Fairvievk' ridge immediately west of Los Gatos, Santa Clara 

 county, California. Also observed in bloom as late as the mid- 

 dle of October. The plants are stout and large when mature, 

 light green, with the marked and not unpleasant odor of S. aju- 

 goides^ to which it is related. The pubescence, which occurs 

 on both stem and leaves, though white and rather plentiful, does 

 not obscure the green appearance of the plant. 



