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FLORA OF BAJA CALIFORNIA, 



JUSTICIA INSOLITA Br 2:195. 



"Suffrutescent, a ft or more hi, with 

 many sh, stiff, almost spinose, minutely 

 w-tomentose, branches; lvs oblg-ovate 

 to lanceolate, minutely pubescent or al- 

 most glab, sh-petioled 15-20 mm lg: fls 

 sessile, scattered; bracts & bractlets lin- 

 ear-acuminate: cx 7 mm lg, deeply 4- 

 parted, the linear-acuminate seg twice 

 as lg as bractlets; cor rose-p, about 20 

 mm lg, deeply bilabiate, tube very sh 

 & broad, 2-sulcate at base in front, the 

 two deeper posterior ones a little higher; 

 throat ampliate rugose-veined; limb 

 deeply bilabiate, 3 or 4 times lg'er than 

 tube, upper lip galeate, emarginate or 

 very sh'ly notched, the lower 3-parted 

 into oblg-ovate lobes: sta inserted in 

 throat; anth muriculate on sides; cells 

 parallel but not even, widely separated 

 by a broad connective; the upper muti- 

 eous, the lower with a spur of variable 

 length: sty filiform; stig minutely capi- 

 tate; ova 4-ovuled: cap 16-18 mm lg, the 

 sterile portion the lg'er: sds Mat, oblique 

 at base, densely covered with retrorsely 

 barbed bristles; embryo sm in the loose 

 testa; cotyledons oval; radical sh in- 

 curved. S Gregoria," — Br. 2:195. 

 VALLESIA LACINIATA Br 2:182. 



"Shrubby 2-3 ft hi with sh stiff 

 branches, & light g lvs com folding in 

 drying: young growth densely, minutely 

 pubescent, nearly glab in age: lvs en- 

 tire oblg-lanceolate, obtuse at base, mu- 

 cronately acute at apex, rather promi- 

 nently pinnate- veined: 30-60 mm lg, 15- 

 30 mm wide, on petioles 5-8 mm lg, 

 simple or di-trichotomously once or 

 twice branched; cymes densely 15-25 fid; 

 pedicels 3-4 mm lg; cx cleft to base with 

 ovate-acuminate lobes about 1 mm lg: 

 cor 12-15 mm ]g, the oblg-oval lobes 

 rairy at base, nearly 1-third as lg as 

 tube, which is hairy within; sta nearly 

 sessile, triangular, apiculate: carpels of 

 • iva distinct, sty united but easily separ- 

 able, stig above the ring-like thickened 

 jiortion flattened, 2-lobed; ovules 10-15 

 in each carpel: drupe by abortion com 1, 

 fleshy, w, oblg-oval 10-12 mm lg; endo- 

 earp in 2 layers, the inner projecting in 

 ridges thru the oblique cribrose openings 

 < f the outer; testa endosperm & embryo 

 ail correspondingly ridged or nodulated: 

 Ed attached by a prominent bk funicu- 

 lus above middle of ventral face; coty- 

 fedons thick, oblg twice as lg as stout 

 radicle. — SSebastian, Comondu." — 'Br. 



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GILIA GLORIOSA Br 2:184 t 9. 



"Shrubby, densely branched and form- 

 ing clumps 3-4 ft hi, & as broad, gland- 

 ular-pubescent, strongly spinose from 

 the persistent divaricate lvs, which in 

 ihe older branches remain as blackened 

 (horns subtending crowded fascicles of 

 much sh'er simple acicular ones: prin- 

 cipal lvs stout-subulate, 1 in lg or less, 

 with 4 remote subulate lobes, the lower 

 near base, those of axy fascicles flat- 

 tened, acerose, not half as lg 1 : fls on 

 sh ped from upper axils: cx 10-1 r ' mm 



If, nearly twice as lg as ped, the linear - 

 acerose lobes nearly as lg as tube, which 

 is membranous in intervals: cor pale 

 pink, or nearly w, shading into rose" 

 color; tube fnmiclform, twice as Ik as 

 the equally-cleft oval entire lobes, and 

 8 times as lg as cx; fil attached to lower 

 third of tube naked, straight, exserted; 

 anth sagittate at base: sty gh'ly 3-lobed, 

 a little sh'er than sta; ova many-ovuled. 

 — Ubi. It would be difficult to exagger- 

 ate the beauty of this plant, as it is 

 seen growing in rounded masses, with 

 the many-shaded large blossoms crowd- 

 ed towards the ends of the branches; 

 unfortunately, as it was just coming 

 into bloom, no sd could be obtained. It 

 appears to be very local, having been 

 observed during an hour's journey, & 

 not again met with."— Br 2:ls4 t 9. 

 RHACELIA SCARIOSA Br 2:185. 



"Euphacelia. Ann, erect, branching 

 from base, villous-pubescent <& gland- 

 ular: lvs 2-3 in lg, petiolate, pinnately 

 divided into 3-5 ovate-oblg, crenate or 

 incised lobes, the terminal much the lar- 

 gest: racemes open, elongate, oft dicho- 

 tomous: pedicels filiform, villous 3-5 

 mm lg, deflexed in fr: cx villous, 2-3 mm 

 lg, the broadly-obovate lobes cleft to 

 base, becoming conspicuously enlarged 

 & thin-scarious in fr: cor bright blue- 

 with w throat, twice as lg as cx, the ro- 

 tate limb as" lg as throat; appendages 

 uniting below over the fil, which are 

 moderately exserted: sty cleft 1-third its 

 length, the lower third & the ova pubes- 

 cent: cap globular, less than half as lg 

 as fr'g cx: sds dull, minutely favose- 

 reticulated, margins and central ridge 

 corrugate. — CNlagdalena Island." — Br 

 2:185. 



IPOMOEA JICAMA Br 2:188. 



"Per, glab, somewhat twining, with 

 num slender sts, prostrate or climbing 

 4-6 ft hi in bushes: rts bearing tuberi- 

 form juicy swellings 2-4 in in diam: lvs 

 ovate -acuminate, cordate at base, en- 

 tire, angulate or sinuate-dentate, 30 mm 

 lg & broad on petioles as lg: ped solitary, 

 20-50 mm lg with a pair of very unequal 

 bracts near middle: cx-Iobes oblg-ovate, 

 lg-apiculate, the inner 15 mm ig, the outer 

 successively sh'er: cor funnelform, W 

 changing to p in fading, 60-80 mm lg, 

 tube a little lg'er than cx: stig 2 -glo- 

 bose, lobulated: cap 4-sd'ed, sds some- 

 what rounded densely covered with dark 

 brown pubescence. Magdalena & S Mar- 

 garita. Isl. SJnrge."— P>r 2:188. 

 CUSCUTA VEATCHIf Br 2:189. 



"Sts slender, branching; scales few & 

 sm; fls few in the clusters, sm; cx 

 nar'ly campanulate at base, with ovate- 

 lanceolate lobes: cor 3 mm lg, twice as 

 lg" as cx, its slender lobes, as well as 

 those of the latter denticulate on the 

 margin & somewhat reflexed- spreading: 

 fil sh'er that sta, attached just below 

 sinus; appendages broad, nearly as lg 

 as tube, fimbriate above: sty 2, sh, stout, 

 unequal; stig globular; ovules 4, only 1 

 apparently ever maturing: sd globular; 

 embryo large, solid, globose, minutely 

 (To be continued.) 



