162 Robinson and Greenman—Menican Plants. 
Lipria NuTans. Shrub with grayish glabrate stems and pale 
brown angulate sparingly puberulent branchlets: leaves ovate- 
acutish, cuneate at the base, thickish, strongly rugose-warty, his- 
pidulous and slightly lucid above, paler and rather densely 
pubescent beneath, an inch long, two-thirds as broad; petioles 
about 2 lines long, canaliculate and hispid pubescent above: 
peduncles slender, commonly recurved and nodding, opposite in 
the upper axils, pubescent, about 9 lines long: heads globose, 
an inch in diameter: bracts ovate, obtuse, reticulated, glandular- 
pubescent upon both surfaces and ciliate, thin, pale, and sub- 
chartaceous, the lowest ovate; the upper more elliptic, 4 to 6 
lines long, half as broad: flowers shortly pedicellate, 34 lines 
long: calyx densely pubescent.—Collected by C. G. Pringle, in 
Las Hoyas Cafion, Oaxaca, altitude 4,500 feet, 2 November, 1894 
(No. 5650). 
Lippra Oaxacana. Shrub, 3 to 5 feet high: stems cinereous, 
smoothish, subterete; branchlets canescent-tomentose: leaves 
ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded at the base, acute or obtuse at 
the apex, 10 to 18 lines long, half as broad, very rugose and 
densely pubescent above, paler and tomentose beneath, crenulate- 
serrulate, short petiolate: inflorescences terminal on the branches, 
rather dense and spike-like, 2 inches long, nearly an inch in diam- 
eter, somewhat looser and rarely branched below: bracts rhom- 
bic-obovate, yellowish green, 4 lines long, half as broad, abruptly 
acuminate, pubescent upon the outer surface, ciliate upon the 
margin, 1-flowered; flowers 24 lines long: calyx 2-lobed, densely 
pilose-pubescent : corolla 4-lobed, 13 lines long, sparingly pubes- 
cent externally: fruit pear-shaped.—Collected by C. G. Pringle, 
on dry limestone hills, Las Hoyas Cafion, Oaxaca, altitude 5,000 
feet, 1 November, 1894 (No. 6021); and by E. W. Nelson, six 
miles above Dominguillo, altitude 5,000 to 6,000 feet, 3 October, 
1894 (Nos. 1586 and 1841). 
STACHYTARPHETA Netsoni. Fruticose: branches cinereous: 
branchlets more or less distinctly 4-angled, sordid-tomentulose: 
leaves opposite, or nearly so, rhombic-ovate, serrate-dentate from 
below the middle, acutish, rather abruptly contracted at the base 
and then decurrent upon the petiole, appressed-pubescent above, 
paler and tomentulose beneath, 1 to 13 inches in length, 6 to 8 
lines in breadth: spikes 2 to 4 inches long, 4 lines in diameter : 
bracts lance-linear, acute, pubescent upon both surfaces, not 
strongly ciliated, 3 lines long, a line broad below: calyx split 
two-thirds of the way to the base on the ventral side, 4 lines long; 
externally pubescent, teeth cohering: corolla curved and nodding, 
7 lines long, externally glabrous, pubescent in the throat, purple. 
—Collected by E. W. Nelson, six miles above Dominguillo, 
Oaxaca, altitude 5,000 to 6,500 feet, 30 October, 1894 (No. 1590). 
Habit nearly as in S. acuminata, DC., which was also collected 
by Messrs. Pringle and Nelson. The latter species is much less 
pubescent and has longer and conspicuously ciliate bracts. 
