FERNALD. — MEXICAN SALVIAS. 503 



lent blunt oblong galea: style bearded. — Sinaloa, footbills of the 

 Sierra Madre near Colomas, July 14, 1897 (J. N. Rose, no. 1727). 



+- -t- Leaves nearly all with definite petioles. (S. comosa and S. sinaloensis may 



be looked for here.) 



** Annuals, more or less bushy-branched : racemes elongated, at least the lower 



verticals remote. 



= Leaves linear-lanceolate to oblong-linear, obscurely serrate : bracts lanceolate. 



36. S. lanceolata, Brouss. App. Elench. PI. Hort. Monsp. (1805) 

 15; Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 37; Jacq.f. Eclog. i. 22, t. 13; 

 Benth. I.e. 299; Gray, I.e. 369; Hemsl. I.e.; Briq. I.e. & reflexa, 

 Horn. Hort. Hafn. (1807), i. 34. S. lanceifolia, Poir. Suppl. v. 49. 

 S. aspidophytta, R. & S. Syst. Mant. i. 206. S. trichostemoides, Pursh, 

 Fl. i. 19. S. aegyptiaca, Sesse & Moc. I.e. 6, not L. — Florida and 

 S. W. United States to Central Mexico. Without locality, 1848-49 

 {Gregg, no. 541) : Chihuahua, low ground near Chihuahua, Oct. 1852 

 (Geo. Thurber, no. 821) ; plains near Chihuahua, Sept. 11, 1885 ( C. G. 

 Pringle, no. 654); damp places near Pilares, Sept. 23, 1891 ( C. V. 

 Hartman, no. 744) : Coahuila, abundant in abandoned fields and 

 bottom-lands, Saltillo, Sept., 1898 (Edw. Palmer, no. 336) : Durango, 

 abundant in rich bottom-lands, near Durango, July, 1896 (Edw. Palmer, 

 no. 327) ; along arroyos, Santiago Papasquiaro, Aug., 1896 (Edw. 

 Palmer, no. 446); between Cerro Prieto and La Providencia, Sept. 11, 

 1898 (E. W. Nelson, 4969) : San Luis Potosi, damp places about the 

 city, 1876 (Schaffner, no. 673); alt. 1,840 to 2,460 m., 1878 (Parry & 

 Palmer, no. 744) : Guanajuato, Presa de la olla, 1893 (A. Duges) : 

 Queretaro, Nov. 19, 1827 (Berlandier, no. 1279). 



= = Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, coarsely subincised-dentate : bracts 



broadly ovate. 



37. S. subincisa, Benth. PI. Hartw. 20, & in DC. I.e. 303; 

 Gray, 1. c. ; Hemsl. 1. c. 565 ; Briq. 1. c. — Texas to Central Mexico. 

 Chihuahua, Pilares, Sept. 18, 1891 (C. V. Hartman, no. 776): Du- 

 rango, rich low ground near Durango, July, 1896 (Edw. Palmer, no. 

 305): Aguas Calientes, in fields near the city (Hartweg, no. 160). 

 Originally described from Hartweg's plant. 



= = = Leaves ovate or narrowly rhombic-ovate, crenate-serrate : bracts narrowly 

 ovate with long attenuate barbulate tips. 



38. S. Chia. Similar to the two preceding : about 6 dm. high, with 

 long internodes (the lower 5 to 7 cm. long) : stem strongly quadrangular, 

 puberulent with appressed white hairs, densely white-pilose at the nodes : 



