surt'arr of tlir U';i\i'S \\hi(h nimplclcly hides ihc \cn:iti()ii. 'I'hc 

 color of (1k' upper surface is deeper green and the veins are niori' 

 impressed than in ,1/. saxiro/a. The tlower heads seems slifijhlly 

 smaller ami ihc lldwcr- much paler in cohir. 



Ortain robust specimens of M. cpilohioidcs strict a Abrams, 

 from the north side of the San Antonio Mts. resemble M. saxicola 

 slightly, in the shape of the lowest leaves and their punctuation. 

 These plants, however, are very different as they lack bicolored, 

 conspicuously nerved leaves and have smaller heads, narrower 

 floral bracts, taller and more slender stems and have their leaves 

 reduced in size as they grow upward along the stem. 



Type: Xear Brown's Flats, Upper Sonoran Zone, alt. 5000 ft., 

 San Anonio Mts., Johnston 2ijj, Sept. 1, 1918. Type in Pomona 

 College herbarium. Cotype material in Stanford University and 

 University of California herbaria. 



Distribution and habitat: Locally abundant in exposed rocky 

 ground in the Upper Chaparral Belt along the south slope of the 

 San Antonio Mts. The following are the only places where the 

 plant has been seen by me: South slope of Cucamonga Peak, alt. 

 4500-6500 ft; along the Sunset Trail near Brown's Flats, alt. 

 4500-5400 ft.; A single plant in Evey Canon in the Lower Chap- 

 parral Belt, alt. 250 ft. {Johnston 1440, 2050 both belong to this 

 species.). 



Monardella lanceolata Gray, var. glandulifera Johnston, var. nov. 



Stems pubescent, upper parts covered with numerous stalked 

 glands, lo-32 dm. high, much branched above the middle; leaf 

 blades lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, l-2-| cm. long, dark green; 

 heads 5-12 mm. wide, on short glandular pedicels; floral bracts 

 ovate to oblong-ovate, 4-6 mm. long, sparingly glandular, minutely 

 scabrous; calyx 6-7 mm. long, very sparsely glandular and pube- 

 scent, teeth triangular-subulate; corolla (in dried specimens) 

 very dark purple, lobes 3-5 mm. long. 



Relationship: In the size of the heads this plant is similar to 

 M. lanceolata mkrocephala Gray. It does not have, however, the 

 sinuses of the calyces naked nor is the inflorescence strongly 

 spreading and open. I feel that the small size can be attributed to 

 ecological causes. The stalked glands which covers the plant dis- 

 tinguishes it at once from all other species of the genus as found 

 in Southern California. 



Type: Brown's Flats, Upper Sonoran Zone (?), alt. 4300 ft., 

 San Antonio Mts. Johnston 2ijg, Sept. 1, 1918. Type in Pomona 

 College herbarium. Cotype in Stanford University and Uni- 

 versity of California herbaria. 



Distribution and habitat: Known from Brown's Flats where it 

 grows very abundantly on a small, grassy, pine cover flat in the 

 Upper Chaparral Belt. The zonal position of' Brown's Flats is 

 uncertain as there are some reasons for considering it a Transition 

 Zone "island" in the chaparral. 



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