FERNALD. — MEXICAN SALVIAS. 553 



■*- •»- Leaves sliort-pilose beneath ; margins subentire. 



205. S. atriplicifolia. Tall, 1 m. high : stem glandular-pilose, 

 especially above, leafy nearly to the inflorescence : leaves broadly augu- 

 late-deltoid, acuminate, glabrate above, pale beneath, mostly 1 dm. long 

 and broad, on pilose petioles 5 cm. or less in length : inflorescence pan- 

 iculate, 2.5 to 3 dm. long ; the verticels mostly 2-flowered, a little remote : 

 bracts linear, glandular-hispid, 2 mm. long : pedicels 5 mm. long : calyx 

 glandulur-puberulent, with ciliate margins, in antliesis 5 mm. long, the 

 ovate-lanceolate lobes with short-subulate tips ; upper lip 2-3-dentate : 

 corolla pilose, dark blue, 3 cm. long : style glabrous. — Chiapas, among 

 the mountains, flowering in October (^Gliieshreght, no. 759). 



Section IX. PYCNOSPHACE, Bentli. Bracts imbricated. Calyx 

 ovate ; the upper lip tridentate, the lower bifid, all the teeth spinescent. 

 Corolla-tube pilose-annulate within; the galea erect, emarginate-bifid ; 

 the lip with small lateral lobes, the larger middle one lacerate-fimbriate 

 or dentate. Herbs with flowers in dense glomerules or verticels. 



* Leaves deeply pinnatifid : verticels 1 or 2. 



206. S. COLUMBARIAE, Benth. Lab. 302, «& in DC 1. c. 349 ; Gray, 



Syn. Fl. 1. c. 367; Briq. 1. c. — Southwestern United States and adjacent 



Mexico. Lower California, San Quentin, 1889 (Edw. Palmer, 



no. 620). 



* * Leaves crenate. 



207. S. Leonia, Benth. Lab. 303, & in DC. 1. c. ; Hemsl. 1. c. 559 ; 

 Briq. 1. c. Leonia salvifolia, Llav. & Lex. Nov. Veg. Descr. fasc. 2, 6. 

 — Described from " Santa Rosa." 



Section X. HETEROSPHACE, Benth. Calyx tubulose, the upper 

 lip truncate, tridentate. Corolla-tube pilose-annulate within or rarely 

 subnaked ; the galea short, erect, the lower lip with small somewhat 

 spreading lateral lobes. Herbs with loose racemes of few-flowered 

 verticels. 



* Corolla scarlet : stems hirsute : leaves petioled, reniform-cordate, repand-toothed 



or pinnatifid. 



208. S. RoEJiERiANA, Scheele, Linnaea, xxii. 586 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. 

 Bound. 132; Gray, Syn. Fl. 1. c. 367 ; Hemsl. 1. c. 564 ; Briq. 1, c. 285. 

 S. porphyrantha, Decne. Rev. Hort. ser. 4, iii. 301, t. 16; Planch. Fl. 

 des Serres, xi. t. 1080. S. porphyrata. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4939. — 

 Texas and adjacent Mexico. Chihuahua, Sta. Eulalia IMts., March 27, 

 1885 (C. G. Prinyle): Coahuila, mountains near Saltillo, July, 1880 



