428 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
venosis membranaceis 17 mm. longis pedicellas brevissimas floriferas 
sicut involucrum includentibus et occultantibus, sepalis circa 13 mm. 
longis acutis, duobus exterioribus latioribus ovatis 5 mm. latis intus 
circa 10-nervatis, tribus interioribus lanceolatis 2-2.5 mm: latis, corolla 
5 em. longa pallide purpurea tubo angusto infundibuliforme, tubo et 
plicis dense pilosis, limbo glabro, capsulis non visis, — GUERRERO ; 
Iguala Cafion, alt. 760 m., September 21, 1905, Pringle, no. 10,054. 
% Apparently near J. hirtiflora Mart. & Gal., from which it differs in its 
almost setose pubescence. 
usticia PactFIca (Oerst.) Hemsl. Mr. Pringle’s no. 10,145, from 
Balsas in the state of Guerrero, agrees excellently with Oersted’s de- 
scription. The original specimens were in fruit only and the species 
was doubtfully referred to Justicia by Hemsley. Mr. Pringle’s plant 
shows a glabrous corolla 2.5 em. long with the short tube and broad 
limb characteristic of Justicia. The species would seem, then, to be 
certainly a Justicia and allied to J. furcata, but differing from all 
forms of that species in its grayish-puberulent stem, spicate inflores- 
cence, ciliate bracts and in the very broad white margins of its. calyx- 
lobes, 
