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long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, blunt at tip, rounded or subcuneate at base, 

 green very rugose and glabrate above, very white beneath, irregularly 

 crenate-deutate ; petioles 1.25 cm. or less in length: racemes 1 dm. or 

 less long; verticels many-flowered, rather crowded, the lowest 1 to 1.5 

 cm. apart; all the parts red-punctate; rhachis pruinose-pubescent : bracts 

 ovate-acuminate, bluish, finely stellate-pubescent : calyx ovate-campauu- 

 late, closely pruinose-pubescent, bluish-tinged, in anthesis 4 to 5 mm. 

 lon<r; the tube twice or thrice exceedins; the deltoid blunt lobes : corolla 

 1.2 cm. long, pruinose-stellate ; the tube one half longer than the calyx; 

 the galea about equalling the lip : style bearded. — Jalisco, road between 

 Mesquitec and Monte Escobedo, Aug. 26, 1897 (J. N. Rose, no. 2601). 



b. Leaves oblong-ovate, bluntly crenate : calyx-teeth subulate. 



11 4. S. Goldraanii. Stem stout, 6 or 7 dm. high, herbaceous, or 

 fruticose at base, puberulent, with numerous ascending branches above : 

 leaves dull-green, slightly rugose above, cinereous and red-punctate be- 

 neath, 1 dm. or less long, bluntish at tip, rounded-cuneate to petioles 

 2 cm. or less in length: racemes 0.5 to 1.5 dm. long; verticels 6-12- 

 flowered, the lower 2 cm. apart, the upper approximate ; rhachis lanate : 

 bracts lance-ovate, caducous: calyx in anthesis 5 to 6 mm. long, lanate 

 at base, the deltoid subulate-tipped lobes one half as long as the tube : 

 corolla red-punctate, 1.5 cm. long; the tube somewhat exserted, glabrous 

 below ; the lips stellate-pilose without, the lower exceeding the galea : 

 style barely exserted, bearded. — Northwestern Mexico. Chihuahua, 

 near Batopilas, alt. 1690 to 2000 m., Oct. 4, 5, 189S {E. A. Goldman, 

 no. 214). 



-^ -4- Calyx blue, invested in long white wool : leaves becoming glabrate, conspic- 

 uously red-punctate beneath. 



115. S. RUBROPUNCTATA, Robinsou & Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 XXX. 121. — SoNORA, iu the canon, Huehuerachi, Dec. 12, 1890 {F. E. 

 Lloyd, no. 451). 



* * * Leaves glabrous, or the youngest slightly puberulent on the nerves 



beneath. 



116. S. Nelsonii. Shrub with smooth reddish-brown bark, the 

 younger branchlets slightly puberulent : leaves ovate, blunt or acutish at 

 tip, rounded at base, 1.5 to 5 cm. long, 1 to 3 cm. broad, dull green and 

 obscurely rugose above, paler beneath, crenate-serrate: petioles slender, 

 puberulent, 1 cm. or less in length : inflorescence more or less paniculate ; 

 the racemes 1 dm. or less long, the upper terminating leafless branches ; 

 verticels 6-12-flowered, becoming a little remote, the lowest 1 to 2 cm. 



