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minutely puberulent above and on the nerves beneath, on puberulent 

 petioles 0.2 to 1 cm. long: peduncles 7 to 10 cm. long, pubescent above 

 with long fine spreading hairs ; verticels 4-8-flowered, all becoming 

 remote, the lowest 1.5 to 2 cm. apart: bracts narrow-ovate, acuminate: 

 pedicels 2 to 3 mm. long : calyx in anthesis 5 to G mm. long, the tube 

 twice exceeding the subulate-tipped lobes : corolla 1.3 to 1.5 cm. long, 

 the glabrous tube one half exceeding the calyx ; galea puberulent, half 

 as long as the dark blue lip. — Tepic, Santa Gertrudis, in the Sierra 

 Madre, Aug. 8, 1897 (J. N. Rose, no. 3407). 



D. Axillijlorae, Benth. Small much branched and depressed suffru- 

 tescent plants: the flowers borne in the axils of foliar leaves : corolla- 

 tube scarcely ventricose. 



* Leaves oblong-linear oblanceolate or spatulate, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, entire, canes- 



cently rough-hispid. 



89. S. axillaris, Moc. & Sess. in Benth. Lab. 270 ; Benth. in DC. 

 I.e. 313; Hemsl. I.e. 553; Briq. 1. c. — South central Mexico. With- 

 out locality (Coulter, no. 1118): San Luis Potosi, in the mountains, 

 187G (Schafner, no. 648), alt. 1,850 to 2,500 m., 1878 (Parry & Palm- 

 er, no. G98): Guanajuato, 1893 (A. Duges, no. 228 A). 



* * Leaves cuneate-obovate, 5 to 7.5 mm. long, 3-toothed, appressed-setulose. 



90. S. cuneifolia, Benth. Lab. 270, & in DC. I.e.; Hemsl., I.e. 

 555; Briq. I.e. — Southern Mexico. Hidalgo, bare hills above Pa- 

 chuca, alt. 2,600 m., July 18, 1898 ( C. G. Prinyle, no. 6905). Orig- 

 inally described from Oaxaca. 



E. Candicantes, Benth. Shrubs : leaves oblong or lanceolate, rarely 

 cordate, or when ovate not cordate, beneath tomentose or densely fine 

 canescent, rarely pale and glabrate. (Some species approaching the Scoro- 

 doniae, others the Erianthae.) 



* Calyx canescent short-pubescent or tomentose, not densely woolly. 



t- Leaves entire or essentially so. (Reel need forms of S. chamaedryoides may be 



looked for here.) 



•w. Leaves sessile or subsessile, narrow-oblong, strongly revolute. 



91. S. Coulteri. Branches ligneous, covered with gray-brown 

 bark and numerous approximate leaf-scars: leaves densely cinereous- 

 tomentulose with stellate hairs, strongly revolute, blunt at tip, truncate 

 or subcordate at base, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide : racemes 2 to 

 3 cm. long ; the rhachis pilose with long branching hairs ; verticels about 

 6-flowered, slightly remote: calyx tubular-campanulate, glandular-pilose, 



