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remote, the lowest 8 to 1 cm. apart: pedicels puberulent, 8 mm. long: 

 calyx minutely puberulent or glabrate; the tube thrice longer than the 

 lip-; upper lip broad-ovate, blant or Bhort-mucronate, lower with two 

 Bhort incurved subulate teeth : corolla 8 t<» 8.25 cm. long, slightly curved, 

 ; the tube twice longer than the calyx ; the galea and lip sub- 

 equal : style glabrous or very slightly bearded. — Chiapas, in the fort 

 flowering in June (Ghiesbreght, no. 760). 



* » Leaves rounded or cordate at base. (S. atrviflora may be looked f<>r here.) 



*- Leaves rounded or rounded-truncate at !>ase, not definitely cordate. 



+♦ Leave? lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 dm. long. 



182. S. perlonga. Shrub with pilose-hispid branches : leaves thick, 

 with long-attenuate tips, crenulate-serrate, rugose and covered with Bhort 

 dense plush-like indumentum above, canescent-velutinous beneath, on 

 canescent petioles 2 cm. or less long: racemes 1 to 2 dm. long ; verti 

 2-8-flowered, all remote; pedicels and rhachis sordid glandular-pilose: 

 calyx purplish, glandular, pilose-hispidulous, iu anthesis 1.8 cm. long, the 

 tube twice exceeding the blunt ovate entire lips: corolla vermilion, 3 cm. 

 long, the slightly ventricose tube twice exceeding the calyx : the minutely 

 pilose lips Eubequal : style slightly bearded. — Gri:uuEBO, northeast 

 slope of Sierra Madre, near Chilpancingo, alt. 2,150 to 2,620 in.. Dec. - 1. 

 1891 (A'. IT. Xelsnn, no. 2180). Further material may show this to 

 belong with the Fulgentes. 



*+ *+ Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, shorter. 



= Corolla purple rose-purple or flesh-colored. 



a. Leaves glabrous or only minutely puberulent beneath, not pilose (except slightly 



so in var. of S. purpart </). 



1. Branches canescent-velutinous: verticels 2-flowered. 



183. S. ORA.CILIPLORA, Mart. & Gal. La 75; Benth. I.e. 3-12; 

 Hemsl. I.e. 557. — Described from Zacuapan. Not seen. 



2. Brandies slightly pilose, puberulent or glabrous : verticels several-many- 



flowered. 



O A pair of glands generally present at the base of the petiole: corolla slender, 



puberulent, 2 to 'J.~~> cm. long. 



184. S. itrituea, Cav. Minutely puberulent or glabrous. — Tc. ii. 

 52, t. 166; Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. iii. 2, t. 258 ; Benth. I.e. 311 ; Hemsl. 

 I.e. 564; Briq. I.e. S. affinit, Cham. & Bchl. Linnaea, v. 99; Benth. 



I.e.; Hemsl. I.e. f>")2: Briq. I.e. — Southern If exico and Central Amer- 

 ica. Jalisco, Bolafios (//<irtic<y, no. 161): Morelos, Cueruavaca, 



