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1. Siphonoglossa longiflora (Torr.) A. Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2, 2 x : 328. 



1886. 

 Adhatoda (?) longiflora Torr., U.S. and Mex. Bound. Bot. 125. 

 1859. 



Pinal and Pima Counties, 3,000 to 4,000 feet, rocky slopes and 

 canyons, April to October, type from l 'southern Arizona." Appar- 

 ently known only from southern Arizona but doubtless also in Sonora. 



Domestic and various wild animals feed upon this plant, especially 

 in times of drought, and it is able to withstand close browsing. The 

 white flowers are vespertine, slightly fragrant, and ephemeral. 



10. JACOBINIA 



Plant shrubby, up to 1.5 m. (5 feet) high, much branched, the 

 herbage sof t- villous ; leaves petioled, the blades ovate; flowers in 

 dense, sessile or subsessile, axillary clusters; corolla broadly funnel- 

 form, brilliant red, the lower lip deeply 3-lobed; stamens 2, the 

 anther cells unequal. 



1. Jacobinia candicans (Nees) Benth. and Hook, ex Hook, and 

 Jackson, Index Kew. 1: 1246. 1893. 



Adhatoda candicans Nees in DC, Prodr. 11: 396. 1847. 



Vicinity of Canyon Lake (eastern Maricopa County), Ajo Moun- 

 tains (western Pima County), 1,700 to 2,000 feet, rocky slopes, April 

 and May. Southern Arizona and Mexico. . 



11. BELOPERONE 



A shrub, up to 2 m. high, with spreading brittle branches and 

 canescent-puberulent herbage; leaves petioled, the blades ovate; 

 flowers in naked racemes; corolla tubular-funnelform, rather dull red, 

 strongly bilabiate, the lower lip shallowly lobed or toothed; stamens 2, 

 exserted, the anther cells unequal. 



1. Beloperone californica Benth., Bot. Voy. Sulph. 38. 1844. 



Pinal, Maricopa, Pima, and Yuma Counties, 1,300 to 3,500 feet, 

 frequent on dry rocky slopes, December to May. Southern Arizona, 

 southeastern California, and northwestern Mexico. 



Called chuparosa in Sonora. The plant is browsed to some extent 

 by livestock. The flowers are very attractive to hummingbirds, and 

 it is reported that they were eaten by the Papago Indians. The 

 name "honeysuckle " is sometimes used locally for this plant. 



115. PLANTAGINACEAE. Plantain family 



1. PLANT AGO. 51 Plantain, indianwheat 



Scapose herbs with the foliage leaves all basal ; flowers small, perfect 

 or unisexual, regular, in terminal, long-peduncled, bracted spikes; 

 calyx and corolla 4-divided or 4-lobed, persistent, usually scarious or 

 scarious-margined ; stamens 2 or 4, separately attached to the corolla; 

 fruit a circumscissile capsule. 



" References: Poe, Ione. a revision of the plantago patagonica group of the united states 

 A.ND Canada. Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 55: 406-420. 1928. 

 Wheeler, Louis C. notes on plantago in the pacific states. Anier. Midland Nat. 

 20: 331-333. 1938, 



