642 MENTHACEAE 



long, retrorsely hispidulous and glandular-dotted. Leaves on slender petioles shorter than or 

 about equaling the blades, these oblong-ovate to broadly ovate, acutish to rounded at apex, 

 acutish to subcordate at base, 5-15 mm. long, crenate, strongly rugose and glandular above, 

 conspicuously reticulate-veined and minutely hispidulous beneath; flovi'ers in a terminal head- 

 like verticil; bracts membranaceous and usually whitish, the outer ovate-elliptic, the inner 

 linear-lanceolate, 10-15 mm. long, tomentulose especially on the margins; calyx 8-10 rnm. long, 

 teeth of the lower lip distinct, of the upper lip completely united with their tips, sometimes evi- 

 denced by 3 minute mucronations ; corolla light blue or lavender, 15-20 mm. long; upper lip 

 3.5 mm. long, 2-lobed to the middle ; middle lobe of the lower lip plane, entire, about 5 mm. long ; 

 connective of anther shorter than the filament, not produced below the rather prominent articu- 

 lation. 



Rocky desert slopes, Lower Sonoran Zone; Little San Bernardino Mountains, southern California, eastward 

 through the desert range of the southern Mojave Desert to western Arizona and northwestern Sonora. Type 

 locality: Providence Mountains, California. Collected by Cooper. April-July. 



13. Salvia Clevelandii (A. Gray) Greene. Blue Sage. Fig. 4415. 



Audibertia Clevelandii A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 76. 1874. 

 Salvia Clevelandii Greene, Pittonia 2: 236. 1892. 

 Audibertiella Clevelandii Briq. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 73. 1894. 

 Ramona Clevelandii Briq. op. cit. 440. 



A low shrub usually 1 m. or less in height, with a pronounced aromatic odor, the branches 

 usually reddish or purple beneath the rather thin whitish tomentose pubescence. Leaves mostly 

 oblong-elliptic, 1-3 cm. long, rounded or obtuse at apex, narrowed at base to a short petiole, 

 crenate, rugose and rather thinly tomentulose above, densely cinereous-tomentulose beneath ; 

 flower-whorls usually solitary, forming a head at the end of the branches, or sometimes 2 or 

 rarely 3 in an interrupted spike ; bracts ovate, 7-8 mm. long, hispidulous ; calyx 8-10 mm. long, 

 glandular-hispidulous, the 2 teeth of the lower lip free, much shorter than the upper lip, the 

 3 teeth of this completely united except the mucronate tips; corolla blue, about 20 mm. long, 

 the tube well-exserted, slender, arcuate, upper lip 6-8 mm. long, shallowly 2-lobed, lower lip 

 shorter than the upper, its middle lobe oblong-retuse ; connective of the anther about equalmg 

 the filament, not prolonged below the articulation. 



Rocky hillsides, Upper Sonoran Zone; locally distributed from the Palomar Mountains and Torrey Pines 

 Park, San Diego County, California, to Tecate River, Lower California. Type locality: near Potrero, California. 

 April-July. 



14. Salvia Vaseyi (Porter) Parish. Vasey's Sage. Fig. 4416. 



Audibertia Vaseyi Porter, Bot. Gaz. 6: 207. 1881. 

 Audibertiella Vaseyi Briq. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 73. 1894. 

 Ramona Vaseyi Briq. op. cit. 440. 

 Salvia Vaseyi Parish, Muhlenbergia 3: 126. 1907. 



Much-branched rounded shrub, usually 1-1.5 m. high, flowering branches elongate and wand- 

 like, leafy at base, pale gray-green and rather thinly and minutely puberulent. Leaves whitish 

 gray, densely strigose-tomentulose and more or less glandular-dotted, oblong-lanceolate to ob- 

 long-ovate, rounded at apex, truncate or subcordate at base, 1-4 cm. long, crenate; petiole 1-2 cm. 

 long; flower-verticils capitate, several- to many-flowered, usually 5-10 of them rather distantly 

 arranged in an interrupted spike; bracts and calyx-teeth long-spinulose, aristate; corolla white, 

 about 20 mm. long ; upper lip suborbicular, retuse at apex ; lower lip about two-thirds the length 

 of the tube, its middle lobe subreniform ; stamens and style well-exserted ; lower end of the 

 connective not prolonged below the articulation. 



Dry gravelly or rocky slopes and washes, Lower Sonoran Zone; western edge of the Colorado Desert, from 

 Morongo Canyon, San Bernardino County, California, to northern Lower California. Type locality: Mountain 

 Springs, San Diego County, California. April-June. 



15. Salvia apiana Jepson. White Sage. Fig. 4417, 



Audibertia polystachya Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 314. 1833. Not Salvia polystachya Mart. & Gal. 



Ramona polystachya Greene, Pittonia 2: 235, 302. 1892. 



Audibertiella polystachya Briq. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 73. 1894. 



Salvia californica Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 460. 1901. Not Brandg. 1889. 



Salvia apiana Jepson, Muhlenbergia 3: 144. 1908. 



Shrubby below, 1-3 m. high, densely and minutely tomentose-canescent or hoary. Leaves 

 mainly at the base of the erect branches of the season, mostly hoary-tomentose on both surfaces, 

 oblong-lanceolate, 5-8 cm. long, acute or acutish at apex, narrowed at base to a petiole 1-2 cm. 

 long, crenulate ; bracts and bractlets small and at length reflexed ; flowers in a thyrsoid panicle ; 

 calyx 5-6 mm. long, upper lip truncate or shallowly 3-toothed, concave, lower lip shorter, divided 

 into 2 triangular teeth; corolla white, 12-16 mm. long, upper lip very short, lower lip much- 

 enlarged, its middle lobe unguiculate-rounded at apex and erosulate ; stamens long-exserted and 

 divaricate; the filiform connective articulate with the filament, its lower end indicated by a 

 minute tooth. 



Dry sandy or rocky slopes and benches, Sonoran Zones; Santa Barbara County, southern California south 

 through the cismontane region and the desert slopes of the southern California ranges to northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia. Type locality: near Santa Barbara, California. Collected by Douglas. April-July. 



