FEIINALD. — MEXICAN SALVIAS. 503 



lent blunt oblong galea : style bearded. — Sinaloa, foothills of the 

 Sierra Madre near Colomas, July 14, 1897 (^J. N. Rose, no. 1727). 



M- ^- Leaves nearly all with definite petioles. (S. comosa and S. sinaloensis may 



be looked for here.] 



-w Annuals, more or less busliy-branched : racemes elongated, at least the lower 



verticels remote. 



= Leaves linear-lanceolate to oblong-linear, obscurely serrate : bracts lanceolate. 



36. S. LANCEOLATA, Brouss. App. Elench. PI. Hort. MoDsp. (1805) 

 15 ; Willd. Eimm. Hort. Berol. i. 37 ; Jacq.f. Eclog. i. 22, t. 13 ; 

 Benth. I.e. 299; Gray, 1. c. 369; Hemsl. I.e.; Briq. I.e. aS\ rejlexa, 

 Horn. Hort. Hafn. (1807), i. 34, *S'. lanceifolia, Poir. Suppl. v. 49. 

 S. aspidojihyUa, R. & S. Syst. Mant. i. 206. ^S*. trichostemoides, Pursh, 

 Fl. i. 19. aS'. aegyptiaca, Sesse & Moc. I.e. 6, not L. — Florida and 

 S. W. United States to Central Mexico. Without locality, 1848-49 

 {^Gregg, no. 541) : Chihuahua, low ground near Chihuahua, Oct. 1852 

 {Geo. Thurher, no. 821) ; plains near Chihuahua, Sept. 11, 1885 ( C G. 

 Pmigle, no. 654); damp places near Pilares, Sept. 23, 1891 (O. V. 

 Hartman, no. 744) : Coahuila, abundant in abandoned fields and 

 bottom-lands, Saltillo, Sept., 1898 (Edw. Palmer^ no. 336) : Durango, 

 abundant in rich bottom-lands, near Durango, July, 1896 {Edw. Palmer, 

 no. 327) ; along arroyos, Santiago Papasquiaro, Aug., 1896 {Edw. 

 Palmer, no. 446) ; between Cerro Prieto and La Providencia, Sept. 11, 

 1898 {E. W. Nelson, 4969) : San Luis Potosi, damp places about the 

 city, 1876 {Schaffner, no. 673); alt. 1,840 to 2,460 m., 1878 {Parry & 

 Palmer, no. 744) : Guanajuato, Presa de la olla, 1893 {A. Duges) : 

 QuEKETARO, Nov. 19, 1827 {Berlandier, no. 1279). 



= = Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, coarsely subincised-dentate : bracts 



broadly ovate. 



37. S. SUBINCISA, Benth. PI. Hartw. 20, & in DC. I.e. 303; 

 Gray, I.e.; Ilemsl. I.e. 565; Briq. I.e. — Texas to Central Mexico. 

 Chihuahua, Pilares, Sept. 18, 1891 {O. V. Hartman, no. 776): Du- 

 rango, rich low ground near Durango, July, 1896 {Edw. Palmer, no. 

 305): Aguas Calientes, in fields near the city {Hartweg, no. 160). 

 Originally described from Hartweg's plant. 



= = = Leaves ovate or narrowly rhombic-ovate, crenate-serrate : bracts narrowly 

 ovate with long attenuate barbulate tips. 



38. S. Chia. Similar to the two preceding : about 6 dm. high, with 

 long internodes (the lower 5 to 7 cm. long) : stem strongly quadrangular, 

 puberulent with appressed white hairs, densely white-pilose at the nodes : 



