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apart : calyx cuneate-carapauulate, resembling that of aS^. scorodoniaefolia, 

 densely short white-villous, iu anthesis 5 to 6 mm. long ; the tube three 

 or four times exceeding the short blunt lips : corolla blue, pilose, 1.2 cm. 

 long; the tube included or barely exserted; the lip slightly exceeding 

 the galea: style bearded. — Puebla, between Acatlan and Piaxtla, alt. 

 1,230 to 1,380 m., Nov. 22, 1894 {E. W. Nelson, no. 2005). The calyx 

 has a strong ginger-like fragrance. 



* * * * Leaves pubescent beneath : plant not identified. 



117. S. Keerlii, Benth. Lab. 263, & in DC. I.e. 316, with ovate 

 cordate very rugose leaves canescent-tomeutose beneath, and with dense 

 paniculate-branched racemes, the calyx pilose-hirsute, not canescent- 

 tomentose, described from Tlalpujahua, Michoacan, and from Regla. 



G. OordifoUae, Benth. Tall herbs or shrubs (ours herbs) with broad 

 cordiform herbaceous leaves green or pale beneath and cordate at base, 

 at least the lowermost long-petioled. (^S. purpurasce7is & S. Martensii 

 might be looked for here.) 



* Stems pilose-hispid : leaves crenate, pale beneath : calyx pilose-hispid, more or 



less glandular. 



118. S. amarissima, Ort. Dec. 4; Edw. Bot. Reg. iv. t. 347 ; Benth. 

 1. c. 317 ; Hemsl. 1. c. 553 ; Briq. 1. c. 280. S. circinata, Cav. Ic. iv. 9, t. 

 318, S. amara, Jacq. Hort. Schoenb., iii. 2, t. 255. S. hirsuta, Sesse 

 & Moc. 1. c. 8. S. amethystina, Donnell Smith, Enum. PI. Guat. i. 35, 

 ii. 62, in part, not Smith. — S. cyanea, Donnell Smith 1. c. iii. 67, iv. 125, 

 not Benth. — A common species from Central Mexico to Central 

 America and Panama. Without locality (^Uhde, no. 791): San Luis 

 POTOSI, alt. 1,850 to 2,460 m., 1878 {Parry & Palmer, no. 752): 

 Hidalgo, hills above Pachuca, alt. 2,550 m., July 18, 1898 ((7. G. 

 Pringle, no. 6914) : Mexico, Guadalupe, Aug. 17, 1865 (Bilimek, no. 

 304); Valley of Mexico, May 11, 1865 (Bowgeau, no. 125, iu part), 

 Sept. 19, 1889 (C. G. Pringle, no. 2817); Rio Hondo Canon, Aug. 22, 

 1890 (C G. Pringle, no. 3153) : Michoacan, Tlalpujahua {Graham) : 

 Oaxaca, Monte Alban, alt. 1,790 m., July 20, 1894 (Z. C. Smith, no. 

 171) ; Valley of Oaxaca, alt. 1,540 to 1,790 m., 1894 {E. W. Nelson, 

 nos. 1103, 1289) : Guatemala, Coban, Dept. Alta Verapaz, alt. 

 1,320 m., July, 1885, and S;uita Rosa, Dept. Baja Verapaz, alt. 1,540 m., 

 July, 1887 {H. von Tuerckheim iu exsicc. J. D. Smith, nos. 110. 1192); 

 San Lucas, Dept. Zacatepequez, alt. 1,700 m., April, 1890 {J. D. Smith, 

 no. 2187); Estanzuela, Dept. Santa Rosa, alt. 770 m., Aug., 1892, 

 Santa Rosa, alt. 925 m., May, 1893, and Laguna de Ayarza, Dept. Ja- 



