FERNALD. — MEXICAN SALVIAS. 495 



122) : Vera Cruz, Orizaba {Botteri, nos. 533, 869), Aug. 13, 1891 



{Seaton, no. 304); Cordoba {Asa Gray): Oaxaca, Monte Alban, alt. 



1,900 m., Oct. 11, 1895 (L. C. Smith, no. 949) : Guatemala, Santiago, 



Dept. Zacatepequez, alt. 2,000 m., 1891 {Rosalia Gomez in exsicc. J. D. 



Smith, no. 816) ; Castillas, Dept. Santa Rosa, alt. 1,230 m., Sept., 



1892 {Heyde & Lux in exsicc. J. D. Smith, no. 4055): Costa Rica, 



Cartago, alt. 1,300 m., Nov., 1888 {Juan J. Cooper in exsicc. J. D. Smith, 



no. 5900) ; San Jose, July, 1892, and San Francisco de Guadalupe, 



Dec, 1893 {Ad. Tonduz, nos. 701, 8456). See note under S. Chia. S. 



flexuosa, Presl in Benth. Lab. 248, is perhaps only a glabrate form of 



this species, apparently represented by Botteri' s no. 395 from Orizaba. 



Var. cinerascens. Whole plant cinereous with fine puberulence. — 



Jalisco, barranca near Guadalajara, Oct. 3, 1891 {G. G. Pringle, no. 



5176). 



++ ++ Leaves firm, small, 1 to 2.5 cm. long : verticels 2-4-flowered. 



= Herbaceous, erect: leaves broad-ovate, cordate, minutely pubescent: lower 

 verticels in axils of upper foliar leaves. 



12. S. humilis, Benth. Lab. 247, & in DC. 1. c. 298; Hemsl. 1. c. 

 558 ; Briq. 1. c. — Described from " Mexico." Not seen. 



= = Diffusely branching from woody base : leaves narrowly rbombic-ovate, or 

 oblong-ovate, cuneate, densely pilose-setulose beneath : racemes short-peduncled. 



13. S. pusilla. Stems 1 to 2.5 dm. long, slender and wiry, puberu- 

 lent and hoary with fine spreading setulose hairs ; more or less diffusely 

 branched : leaves blunt or acutish, irregularly more or less serrate, 

 green above, pale beneath, long-setulose on both faces or glabrate above, 

 on short slender petioles: peduncles 1.5 to 4 cm. long: racemes 1 to 8 

 cm. long; the verticels all remote, the lowest becoming 2 to 2 J) cm. 

 apart : bracts ovate, 3 to 4 mm. long, firm and essentially persistent : 

 pedicels very short: calyx white-setulose, in anthesis 2 to 3 mm., in 

 fruit 5 mm. long ; the tube once and a half longer than the acuminate 

 lobes : corolla blue, 7 mm. long ; the tube short-exserted ; the pilose 

 galea twice exceeded by the lip: style densely bearded. — Oaxaca, 

 vicinity of Yalalag, alt. 1,230 to 2,400 ra., July, 1894 {E. W. Nelson, 



* no. 958); Sierra de San Felipe, alt. 2,160 m., Sept. 23, 1895 {G. 

 Conzatti, in exsicc. L. C. Smith, no. 708). 



* * * Corolla 9 to 10 mm. long. 



-i- Leaves cuneate or rounded-cuneate at base : calyx subglabrous. 



++ Leaves oblongdanceolate. 



14. S. ourophtlla, Briq. Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Geneve, ii. 

 126. — Described from Costa Rica. Not seen. 



