An Enumeration of the Plants collected by Dr. H, H. Rusby in South 



America, 1885-1886, XXX 



By H. H. Rusby 



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(Continued from Bull. Torr. Club, 27 : 84. 17 F. 1900.) 



Salvia Bridgesii Britton, sp. nov. 



Scurfy-tomentose, gray : stems erect or ascending, reddish, ob- 

 tusely quadrangular, very leafy: petioles . 5 — 1 . 5 cm. long, slender 

 or stoutish : blades 3-6 cm. long, .7-1.5 cm. broad, lanceolate 

 or lance-ovate, blunt to rounded at the base, acute or obtuse, 

 finely crenate or crenate-dentate, thickish, above dark-green, mi- 

 nutely velutinous, finely bullate by the strongly impressed, finely 

 reticulate venation, underneath bright-gray, the reddish midrib 

 and 12—15 pairs of strongly ascending secondaries very prominent : 

 bracts varying from ovate and 5 mm. long, to linear-attenuate 

 and more than 1 cm. long: calyx (in flower) 1.5 cm. long, lip- 

 ped one third of its length : corolla 2 cm. longer than the calyx, 

 slender : stamens 5 mm. exserted, the nearly semicircularly curved 

 anthers 3 mm. long, or nearly 4.5 mm. long if straightened, 

 longer style-branch nearly 2 mm. long. 



Vic. La Paz, 10000 ft., Apr., 1885 (no. 1496). The same 

 as Mandon's no. 510. Dr. Britton says also collected by Bridges 

 and Pearce, and nearest to >S. bullidata. 



Dr. Britton regards Rusby's no. 2439 as the same. Its leaves 

 are much smaller, its calyx (in flower) 8 mm. long, its corolla 2 



cm. long. 



Perilomia ocimoides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 2 : 328. Yungas 



4000 ft., 1885 (no. 2155). 



Marmbium vulgare L. Sp. PI. 583. Near Valparaiso, Chili, 

 June, 1885 (no. 1063). 



Stachys Bogotcnsis H.B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 2 : 309. Unduavi, 

 8000 ft., Oct., 1885 (no. 1495), and Sorata, 10000 ft., Feb., 1886 

 (no. 1494). 



Stachys ripens Mart, et Gal. in Bull. Acad. Brux. it: 194- 

 1844. Sorata, 10000 ft., Feb., 1886 (no. 2413). The same as 

 Mandon's no. 521. 



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