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semijDollicari violacea glabra, tubo subventricoso incluso labio antico 

 amplo paullo breviore; counectivis antice deflexis oblougo-lanceolatis 

 laeviter connatis medio loculum cassum geventibus ; stylo apice in- 

 crassato postice saltern villosissimo, lobo postico subulato anticum 

 deltoideum tripio superante. — Rio Blanco, on moist hillsides ; June. 

 (28.) Near Schaffner's 678, an unnamed species. 



Salvia angustifolia, Cav. Rio Blanco, in bottoms ; June. (53.) 

 Guadalajara, edge of a swamp ; July. (226.) 



Salvia glechomjefolia, HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 2. 270, t. 141. 

 A ratlier narrow-leaved variety. Rio Blanco, on hillsides ; June. (61.) 



Salvia amarissima, Ort. {S. nepetoides, HBK. 1. c, t. 150.) 

 Rio Blanco, at base of hills ; July. (183.) 



Salvia Keerlii, Benth., ex char. Barranca, in shade. (118.) 

 — The same as 1 073 Coulter, referred to S. Drummondii, but not 

 the Texan plant. 



Salvia sessilifolia, Gray, n. sp. Inter Fidgentes notabilis foliis 

 sessilibus oblongo-ovatis e basi rotundata vix cordulata parce serratis 

 subacutis tenuiter venulosis, majoribus sesquipollicaribus, floralibus 

 semipollicaribus ovato-lauceolatis parum nervatis ciliatis persistenti- 

 bus ; verticillastris remotis paucifloris ; calyce (semipollicari pedicellis 

 tripio longiore) turbinato-campauulato 10-nervato, lobis ovatis, pos- 

 tico integro obtuso, anticis mucronato-acuminatis ; corolla sanguinea 

 pollicari, tubo ventricoso e calyce vix exserto, labio antico trilobato 

 (lobo medio bifido) posticum magis purpurascenti-pubescens superante ; 

 stylo superne villosissimo : j^lanta herbacea debilis, pilis patentibus 

 hirsuta, caule bipedali. — Rio Blanco, bottom of ravine; July. (184.) 

 By the characters this cannot be S. glumacea, HBK., nor S. lineata, 

 Benth. 



Salvia albiplora, Mart. & Gal., var. c^rulescens. Gray, of 

 Palmer's Batopilas collection. It needs comparison. Guadalajara, 

 a tall plant, in ravines and by shaded roadsides ; September. (488.) 

 Rio Blanco, a foot and a half high, on sides of canons ; September. 

 (598.) 



Salvia privoides, Benth. Guadalajara, by fences ; September. 

 (498.) 



Salvia heltanthemifolia, Benth., var. Tenuissime puberula; 

 foliis semipollicaribus, thyrso racemiformi virgato nuncramoso; calyci- 

 bus caesio-caeruleis cano-puberulis paullo angustioribus. — Rio Blanco, 

 among rocks ; September. (556.) Hardly of the same species with 

 729 Parry & Palmer, referred here, but without doubt the species of 

 Bentham. 



