FERNALD. — MEXICAN SALVIAS. 625 



2.5 cm. long, 0.75 to 1.75 cm. broad, ou villous petioles 1 cm. or less in 

 length: racemes simple, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. loug ; verticels 3-8-flowered, 

 all remote, the lowest 2 to 2.5 cm. apart: pedicels 3 to 5 mm. loug, 

 glaudular-piiberuleut : calyx tubular-campanulate ; the tube twice or 

 thrice exceeding the ovate mucronate lobes ; upper lip entire : corolla 

 deep blue, 1.5 cm. long; the glabrate tube twice exceeding the calyx; 

 the pilose galea slightly exceeding the dark lip : style bearded. — 

 Oaxaca, El Pariau-Etla, alt. 370 m., Nov., 1898 ( V. Gonzalez & C. 

 Conzatti, no 903). 



-(- t- Leaves less rugose, narrow-ovate, mostly acuminate at tip. 

 ■w- Flo\v.ers in small cymes forming a terminal thyrsus : leaves ovate-lanceolate. 



107. S. THYRSiFLORA, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 151, & in DC. I.e.; 

 Hemsl. 1. c. 566 ; Bricj. 1. c. — Southwestern Mexico, Tepic to Michoacan. 

 Jalisco, vicinity of Mascota and San Sebastian, alt. 1170 to 1540 m., 

 March, 1897 {E. W. Nelson, nos. 4057, 4081): Michoacan, mountains 

 near Patzcuaro, Nov. 10, 1890, Dec. 21, 1891 (C G. Pringle, uos. 

 3593, 4097). Originally from Tepic. 



++ -M- Flowers in simple or more or less branclied generally paniculately or virgately 



disposed racemes. 



= Branches short-pilose with recurved spreading hairs. 



a. Calyx tubular, in fruit 5 mm. long, the tube four times exceeding the very 



short broad lobes. 



108. S. ALAMOSANA, Rose, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. i. 110. — 

 SoNORA, Sierra de los Alamos, 1890 {Edw. Palmer, no. 345). 



6. Calyx campanulate, in fruit 6 to 7 mm. long, the tube twice exceeding the 



narrower lobes. 



109. S. CHAPALENSis, Briq. Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Geneve, ii. 

 145. — Jalisco, rich wooded carious, mountains near Lake Chapala, 

 Nov. 22, 1892 (C. G. Prhujle, no. 4351). 



= = Branches pubescent with ascending soft hairs. 



110. S. multiramea. Stems about 1 m. high, freely paniculate- 

 branched, the upper branches leafless and bearing racemes : leaves 

 narrow-ovate, acuminate, rounded or subcordate at base, somewhat rugose 

 and scabrous-hispidulous above, densely tomentose beneath, short-petioled, 

 2 to 5 cm. long, 1 to 2.5 cm. broad : inflorescence paniculate ; lower 

 branches leafy and axillary, upper naked ; terminal racemes 1.2 dm. or 

 less in length, the others shorter; verticels 2-12-flowered, all becoming 

 remote : bracts lance-subulate, minute, early deciduous : pedicels 2 to 



