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la. P, “Splingii Pennell sp. nov. Stems several, ascending from a branching 
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some yhat woody base, divergent, never strictly vertical, glabrous in the 
lovor varts or minutely vuberulent in lines below the leaf-bases, gland- 
uler in the inflorescence, 50-90 cm. tall; basal leaves tufted, their 
blades cllipvtical or lanccolate, acute or obtuse, frequently ovate or 
obovate and obtuse or rounded, all narrowed +o slender petioles, entire 
or nearly so, 4-0 cm. long; stem leaves prevailingly oblong-lanceolate 
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and obtuse on the lower parts, lanccolate and acute or acuminate above, 
entire or more often tending, to be shallowly denticulate, 4-12 cm, long, 
as much as 5 cm. broad, rounded at the base and clasping the stem, all 
glabrous; flowers on nedicels 1-35 mm, long, in dense clusters at the tivs 
of glandular erect peduncles .5-5 cm, long, the glomerules for the most 
vart distinct, 2-10 cm, distant or the lowermost as much as 15 cm., 
forming an interrupted spike 10-30 cm, long, 3-4.5 cm, broed; sepals 
lanccolate or narrowly ovate, acute or acuminate, tending to spread, 
glandular, the margins hardly membranous or very narrowly so, entire; 
corollas 12-15 mm, long, glandular without, the tube usually purple, the 
lobes blue, the throat rose-purple streaked with blue, the lower lip 
4-4,5 mm, long; capsules 5-G mm, long, ovoid; seeds 1-1.3 mm, long, 
slightly curved, the angles sharp, not winged, acuminate, glabrous, the 
reticulations scarcely apparent, 
