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the lower lip rounded: anther-cells nearly equal in size, the upper not 
ciliate, minutely mucronate at the base, the lower with a conspicuous 
spur: capsule 5 lines long, soft-pubescent, 4-seeded; seeds compressed, 
very hairy especially at the edge. — On hills near Guadalajara; Oc- 
tober, 1889 (n. 2967). This species seems anomalous among the 
New World members of the genus. It resembles more nearly the 
species of the § Rhaphidospora of the Old World, which have a diffuse 
inflorescence and echinate-hispid seeds. It differs from § Sarotheca 
chiefly in lacking the ciliation of the anthers. 
Ciruarexytum Berbanpieri. Ten to fifteen feet high; branches 
gray, striate; branchlets pubescent, striate, acutely 4-angled but soon 
becoming round ; leaves ovate or rhombic, varying in the same indi- 
vidual from acute to retuse at the apex, shortly cuneate at base, memr 
branaceous, puberulent above, soft-pubescent beneath, 1 to 1} inches 
long, 9 lines broad, entire, or some with a few blunt teeth near the 
apex: inflorescence terminal, subspicate, more or less flexuous, 1 to 2 
inches long, becoming more rigid in fruit; pedicels half a line long, 
with minute filiform bractlets of the same length: calyx turbinate, a 
lines long, striate, pubescent, the five subequal teeth erect, very short 
and blunt; corolla-tube just equalling the calyx, pubescent within, the ‘ 
spreading limb of five rounded lobes, puberulent on both sides: fertile 
stamens four, filaments hairy; the fifth stamen present as an 40° a 
therless rudiment: drupes dark brown, as large as peas, crowded 0 — 
the spikes. — Rocky hills, Las Canoas, San Luis Potosi; July, 1890 : 
(n, 3222). Apparently identical with n. 3182 of Berlandier, collected | 
near Matamoras, May, 1832. This specimen of Berlandier’s Wa 
doubtfully referred by Dr. Gray to C. villosum, Jacq., and has formed 
the sole evidence that this species occurs in Mexico. In the light of 
Mr. Pringle’s better material, however, it is clear that the Mexicad 
plant is quite distinct from the species just mentioned. : 
ScUTELLARIA HISPIDULA. Perennial with ligneous base; stems 
numerous, mostly simple, hispidulous, a span high, often dark purple as 
well as the floral leaves and calyx: leaves small, ovate or ovate-ellip4% 
subglabrous or very minutely hispid but not at all cinereous-puyey — 
cent, 4 to 5 lines long (about half the length of the internodes), 2 © — 
3 lines broad, all except the. very lowest abrupt at the base and sessile * . 
flowers numerous, of medium size, with short pedicels ; calyx strongly 2 
accrescent, hispid with short white hairs; corolla blue, white in ° — 
throat, soft-pubescent on the outside, 5 to 7 lines long, the upper lip E 
but slightly cucullate; upper stamens often exserted. — Meadows, Flor 3 
de Maria, Mexico; August, 1890 (n, 3233). A plant with the habit 
