FERNALD. — MEXICAN SALVIAS. 53T 



alt. 1,380 in., Nov. 2, 1894 (O. G. Pringle, no. 5654). Resembling S. 

 aspern, Mart. & Gal., from which it differs in its short terminal racemes 

 of red flowers. 



++ ++ Leaves from narrow oblong to linear-oblanceolate. 



147. S. Greggii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 369, & Syn. Fl. 1. c 

 368; Hemsl. I.e. 557, & iv. 81 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 6812. S. micro- 

 phijUa, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bouud. 131, not HBK. — Texas to Durango. 

 Coahuila, canon above Palomas, 1848-49 (Gregg, no. 335) ; high 

 dry ridge, battlefield of Buena Vista (Gregg); Saltillo, 1878 (Parry, 

 no. 26) ; Lerios, July, 1880, and near Saltillo, May, 1898 (Edw. Palmer, 

 nos. 1071, 153): Durango, shady hillsides and river-banks, Santiago 

 Papasquiaro, Aug., 1896 (Edw. Palmer, no. 417). 



* * Branching or subsimple shrubs or half-shrubs or tall herbs, leafy nearly or 

 quite to the inflorescence : leaves larger, only the smallest 4 cm. long. 



-t- Leaves pubescent beneath. 



*+ Calyx-lobes with long setaceous-acuminate tips: corolla 2.5 to 4 cm. long: 

 branches densely tomentose, viscid above. 



= Leaves densely tomentose beneath, minutely so above. 



148. S. Lindenii, Benth. in DC. I.e. 333; Hemsl. I.e. ii. 560; 

 Briq. 1. c. — Southern Mexico and adjacent Central America. Oaxaca, 

 between Pluma and Sau Miguel Suchistepec, alt. 2,460 to 3,070 m., 

 March 21, 1895 (E. W. Nelson, no. 2508) : Chiapas, without locality * 

 (Ghiesbreght, nos. 122, 755): Guatemala, Volcan de Agua, Dept. 

 Zacatepe'quez, alt. 2,770 m., Apr., 1890 (J. D. Smith, no. 2169). 



= = Leaves greener, thinly pubescent beneath, becoming glabrate above. 



149. S. rectiflora. Vis. Sem. Hort. Pat. 1839, ex ejusd. Ort. Bot. 

 Pad. 145; Benth. I.e. 334; Hemsl. I.e. 564, excl. syn. — South-central 

 Mexico. Guanajuato, rocky mountain-slopes, 1880, 1894 (A. Duges). 



+*• ++ Calyx-lobes blunt or mucronate or merely short-acuminate. 

 = Corolla 4 to 6 cm. long. 



a. Leaves densely white-tomentose beneath, finely crenate-serrate, and with sharp- 

 acuminate tips : calyx glandular-puberulent. 



150. S. fulgens, Cav. Leaves cordate-ovate. — Ic. i. 15, t. 23; 

 Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, i. t. 59; Lindl. Bot. Reg. xvi. t. 1356; 

 Benth. 1. c. 333 ; Hemsl. 1. c. 556; Briq. 1. c. S. cardinalis, HBK. 1. c. 

 300, t. 152. S. grandi 'flora, Sesse & Moc. I.e. 7. — Central Mexico. 

 Zacatecas, on the Sierra de los Morones, near Plateado, Sept. 1, 1897 

 (/. A r . Pose, no. 2743) : Jalisco, between San Sebastian and the sum- 



