Pentstemon. SCROPHULARIACEiE. 261 



long : inflorescence loosely spiciform, leafy below : subsessile and mostly solitary 2-brac- 

 teolate flowers and their bracts or floral leaves commonly alternate : sepals ovate-lanceo- 

 late, puberulent, slightly if at all glandular: corolla 4 lines long, rather narrow, glabrous: 

 sterile filament glabrous. — S. E. California, on Little Olanche Mountain, toward the sources 

 of Kern River, at 10,400 feet, Rothrock. 

 P. Lemmoni, Gray. Glabrous up to the pedicels, 2 to 4 feet high, slender, rather 

 remotely leaved : leaves ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, thinnish, acutely and sparsely serru- 

 late, an inch or less long : thyrsus loose, leafy below : peduncles all opposite, slender, few- 

 several-flowered : short pedicels and ovate-lanceolate sepals viscid-pubescent : corolla half 

 inch long, some'what campanulate-dilated above, viscid or glandular: filament strongly 

 yellow-bearded ;&n one side of the curved apex. — Bot. Calif, i. 557. — California, from 

 Mendocino to Plumas Co., Kellogg, Lemmon. 



-i — n — H — H — H — Corolla (white or purplish) nearly an inch long, oblong^ampanulate from the 

 base, hardly at all bilabiate. 



P. frutescens, Lamb. A span or less high from a woody (subterranean? or prostrate) 

 stock : stems pubescent, leafy : leaves oblong, with somewhat narrowed base, denticulate, 

 glabrous (1^ to 3 inches long, 7 to 12 lines wide) : thyrsus terminal, 3-9-flowered : pedicels 

 and lanceolate acuminate sepals villous and viscid: lobes of the corolla short and broad, 

 nearly equal and equally somewhat spreading : lower part of the fertile filaments and 

 most of the sterile one hirsute-bearded. — Linn. Trans, x. 250, t. 6, fig. 1; Pursh, Fl. ii. 

 428 (excl. hab. ) ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 321. — " TJnalaschka, Pallas." Not since detected 

 there, and perhaps a mistake. Certainly not found " on the north-west coast " by Lewis. 

 (Kamtschatka and Japan !) 



# # # (Ambigui.) Anthers glabrous, reniform, not explanate in age, the line of dehiscence stop- 

 ping a little short of the base of the cells : stem suffruticose and leaves thick-coriaceous. 



P. baccharifolius, Hook. Glabrous, or the rigid branches obscurely puberulent, 

 2 feet high, leafy below : leaves oblong, nearly sessile, rigidly and acutely dentate, almost 

 veinless, an inch long ; the uppermost abruptly reduced to small ovate bracts of the loose 

 and racemose glandular inflorescence : peduncles 1-3-flowered : sepals ovate : corolla deep 

 carmine-red, an inch long, broadly tubular and with a short moderately bilabiate limb ; 

 upper lip somewhat erect, 2-lobed ; lower recurved and 3-parted : sterile filament naked. 

 — Bot. Mag. t. 4627; Gray in Bot. Mex. Bound. 115, & Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 58. — S. W. 

 Texas, on the San Pedro River, Wright. 



* # # # (Elmigera.) Anthers glabrous (rarely villous); the cells dehiscent from the base 

 towards but not to the apex, consequently not explanate after dehiscence : corolla tubular, little 

 ampliate upward, red : sterile filament mostly glabrous : herbs glabrous and usually glaucescent, 

 glabrous even to the calvx and outside of the corolla, or merely pruinose-puberulent : stems vir- 

 gate and simple : leaves all entire ; the cauline sessile or partly clasping : thyrsus elongated 

 and virgate, loosely-flowered, racemiform or paniculate. — Elmigera, Reichenb. § Elmigera 

 (Benth. m DC. 1. c.,"excl. spec), Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. 



-I— Corolla stronglv bilabiate; upper lip erect and concave, 2-lobed at apex; lower reflexed and 



3-parted : peduncles and pedicels mostly slender. 

 P. barbatUS, Nutt. Usually tall, 2 to 6 feet high : leaves lanceolate or the upper linear- 

 lanceolate ; the lowest and radical oblong or ovate : sepals ovate : corolla inch long, from 

 light pink-red to carmine ; base of the lower lip or throat usually bearded with long and 

 loose or sparse yellowish hairs : anthers even in the bud divergent, soon divaricate. — Gen. 

 ii. 53; Benth. I.e.; Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxv. t. 21, flesh-colored variety; Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vi. 59. Chehne barbata, Cav. Ic. iii. 22, t. 242 ; Bot. Reg. t. 116. C. ruellioides, Andr. 

 Bot. Rep. t. 34. Elmigera barbata, Reichenb. in Steud. Nom. — Mountains of Colorado and 

 New Mexico ; and commonly cult. (Mex.) 



Var. Torreyi, Gray, 1. c. {P. Torreyi, Benth. in DC. Prodr. 1. c), a tall and usually 

 deep scarlet-red-flowered form, with few or no hairs in the throat; but in cultivated and 

 even in wild specimens the distinction vanishes. — W. borders of Texas to Colorado and 

 New Mexico. 



Var. puberulus, Gray in Bot. Mex. Bound. 114, is pruinose-puberulent, otherwise 

 like the preceding. — Guadalupe CaHon, Arizona, Thurber. 



Var. trichander, Gray, is also like a low form of var. Torreyi, except that anthers 

 are beset with long woolly hairs ! — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 94. — S. W. Colorado, Brandegee. 



Var. labroSUS, Gray. A low and narrow-leaved form, with almost simply race- 

 mose flowers : corolla apparently red with a yellowish tube; the lips remarkably long (6 



