Vol. 33, pp. 113-116 December 30, 1920 



PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



TWO NEW SALVIAS FROM GUATEMALA. 

 BY S. F. BLAKE. 



About a year ago the writer described in these Proceedings 1 

 a new Salvia with handsome blue flowers from Guatemala, 

 collected by Wilson Popenoe of the Office of Seed and Plant 

 Introduction. This species is now being grown for distri- 

 bution at the Introduction Farm at Yarrow, Maryland, and 

 promises to be an attractive addition to the cultivated Salvias. 

 Mr. Popenoe has recently sent for determination another 

 new Salvia of the Fulgentes group with crimson-scarlet flowers. 

 This is described below as Salvia popenoei, and with it another 

 new species of the same group collected in Guatemala several 

 years ago by E. W. D. Holway. 



Salvia holwayi Blake, sp. nov. 



Herbaceous, probably 1 meter tall or more.the base and lower portion 

 not seen; stem stoutish, brownish, shallowly 4-sulcate, oppositely branched, 

 rather densely hispidulous-puberulous with spreading or reflexed hairs and 

 especially in the grooves hispid-pilose with reflexed to spreading or ascend- 

 ing several-celled hairs, glabrescent below ; leaves opposite ; petioles slender, 

 0.8 to 3 cm. long, spreading-puberulous and above hispid-pilose, connected 

 at base by a densely hispid-pilose ring; blades broadly ovate, 4.5 to 8.5 

 cm. long, 2.8 to 7.5 cm. wide, acuminate, cordate at base, papyraceous, 

 crenate-serrate with blunt depressed teeth, above green, sparsely hispid- 

 puberulous with several-celled ascending hairs, beneath pale green, along 

 the veins and veinlets loosely pilose with lax many-celled hairs; racemes 

 terminating stem and branches, simple, dense, 5.5 to 15.5 cm. long, densely 

 stipitate-glandular and hispid-pilose with several-celled spreading hairs, 

 on a peduncle 1.3 to 6 cm. long; verticels many-flowered, the lowest 1.5 

 to 2 cm. apart, the others crowded; bracts ovate, quickly deciduous, the 

 uppermost about 4 mm. long; pedicels 4 to 5 mm. long; calyx tubular- 



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