304 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY, 
several erect or spreading hairs on the outer surface near the tip: capsule 
13 to 15 mm. long, glabrous. — Collected by C. G. Pringle, in a wet 
barranca above Cuernavaca, altitude 2,000 m., 21 September, 1896, no. 
Justicia Clinopodium, Gray, in herb. Stems ascending or erect, 
usually branching, terete, 2 to 5 dm. high, lineolate pubescent, also 
covered with long spreading villous pubescence, often interspersed with 
glandular hairs: leaves short-petiolate, obtuse, entire, subcordate at the 
base, with a scattered villous pubescence on either surface, especially 
upon the veins beneath, 2 to 5 em. long, 1 to 23 em. broad: petioles 
short, 1 to 5 mm. in length; inflorescence in terminal pedunculate 
spikes becoming 8 cm. long; bracts and bractlets lanceolate, acute, 10 
to 15 mm. long, covered on the outer surface and margin with long 
villous hairs intermixed with glandular hairs: calyx deeply 4-parted, 
the equal or subequal divisions linear-acute, about equalling the bracts, 
externally villous-pubescent: corolla glabrous, about 2 em. long, purple, ° 
the upper lip shortly bifid, the lower deeply 3-lobed, segments subequal, 
oblong, rounded at the tip: stamens of the genus, but with the adnate 
portion pubescent: style smooth: capsule glabrous, about 13 mm. longs 
seeds compressed, more or less densely covered with shaggy armed 
trichomes. — Collected by Bourgeau, in the region of Orizaba, 25 August 
1866, no. 2901; also by Botteri in the same locality without number; 
and by Ghiesbreght, in Chiapas, 1864-70, nos. 80, 684. 
Bovuvarpia opovata, HBK. A stout glabrous herb nearly _” 
ter in height: stems simple, unbranched, angular, striate-sulcate ; 1teT 
nodes 5 to 13 cm. in length: leaves verticillate, 5 to 8 in each whorl, 
narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 4 to 12 cm. long, 1 to 5 cm. broad, 
usually obtusish and submucronate, sometimes acute, entire, revolute, 
subrepand and often hispidulous on the margins toward the apex, gradu- 
ally narrowed below the middle to a subpetiolate base, rather dark gee 
to olive green in color (in the dried state), slightly paler beneath; 
rib and veins rather prominent, especially beneath ; interpetiolar stipules 
subdeltoid, acute or short-acuminate, unequally serrulate or sublaciniate + 
inflorescence in a terminal close subtrichotomous cyme: peduncles 9 . 
12 mm. long; the ultimate divisions pruinose-puberulent : calyx mene 
4(-5)-parted ; divisions linear, about 3 mm. long, acute, often ae ¥ 
colored, ciliate or subhispidulous on the margins: corolla tubular, 4( 4 
parted, 2} to 3 cm. long, deep red or crimson, minutely pruinose or puberu 
lent on the outer surface, glabrous within ; lobes ovate, acute, about 4 ™™ 
long: anthers subsessile in the upper portion of the corolla-tube : style 
aoe 
