504 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. ee 
Heterotoma Goldmanii. Annual or biennial, freely branching from c 4 
the base, 5 dm. high; the slender branches minutely hirsute below with 4 
short hairs: leaves mostly toward the base of the plant, thin, lanceolate _ 
to ovate, irregularly cut and lobed half way to the middle, 2 to 4 cm. long,. _ 
on slender petioles one half as long as the blade: racemes elongated, 
slender and flexuous, pedunculate, loosely-flowered, becoming 2 to 4 dm 
long; pedicels filiform, spreading, at first 1 cm. long, in fruit becoming 
5 cm. long; bracts subulate, the lowest 1 cm. long, the upper muck 
shorter: calyx hemispherical, glabrous, in fruit 2.5 mm, long, hardly, 
equalling the lance-subulate teeth, and with a linear spur 5 mm. long, 
bearing 2 subulate awns at the tip: corolla blue, 1.5 cm. long, the poste- ~ 
rior portion elongated and adnate to the spur of the calyx; tube cleft 
nearly to the base ; the 3 middle lobes of the limb much larger than the 
lateral ones. — SINALOA, road from Las Flechas to La Rostra, Feb. 22, 
1899 (£. A. Goldman, no. 324). Nearest related to H. macrocenteron, 
Benth. in Hook. Ic. xii. 68, t. 1177, but with smaller flowers, looser 
more spreading inflorescence, and different leaves. 
H. stenodonta. Perennial from a slender rootstock: stems slender, 
glabrous, 3 dm. or less high, leafy to the top: leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
long-acuminate, 1 dm. or less long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. broad, thin and glab- 
rous, except for the entire cuneate base, sharply and irregularly serrate 
with erect narrow-deltoid callous-tipped teeth: racemes terminal or on 
axillary peduncles, becoming 6 or 7 cm. long; pedicels filiform, ascend- 
ing, 1 em. or so long, twice exceeding the subulate minutely toothed 
bracts: calyx campanulate, the tube in fruit 3 or 3.5 mm. long, about 
equalling the lanceolate teeth: corolla pale bluish, 8 mm. long, merely 
gibbous at base: capsule oblong, one-half exceeding the calyx-teeth. — 
Cutapas, Chicharras, alt. 923 to 1,847 m., Feb. 6, 1896 (Z. W. Nelson, 
no. 3758). 
Brickellia glomerata. Stems closely cinereous with short more oF 
less viscid pubescence, freely branched above: leaves opposite, petioled, 
ovate to oblong, acute or bluntish, the lower excluding the petioles 8 cm. 
long, the upper shorter, strongly rugose, scabrous above, tomentulose 
beneath : heads sessile or subsessile in th 
leafy-bracted glomerules of from 2 to 5: 
long, of about 4 series of oblong or oblong-lanceolate blunt greenish oF 
purplish-brown dark-nerved hardly scarious bracts, the outer and the 
margins of the inner pilose or arachnoid: achenes linear, 4 mm. long; 
strongly appressed-pubescent. — Guerrero, oak woods, higher mout- 
tains near Acapulco, Jan., 1895 (Edw. Palmer, no. 497): Oaxacas 
e upper axils or in terminal 
involucre oblong, 1 to 1.2 cm. 
