MINT FAMILY 403 



hills w.), Jepson; Palo Prieto Pass, Temblor Eange, Jepson 12,021 ; Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo 

 Co., Jones. Sau Joaquin Valley: Autioch, Chesnut 4' Drew; Tracy, Cobb ; betw. Mossdale School 

 and Atlanta, San Joaquin Co., Jepson 14,941; Berenda, Hoover 902; Antelope Plain near Lost 

 Hills, Jepson; McKittrick, Jepson 16,237. Southern Sierra Nevada foothills: Grapevine Spr. 

 betw. Woodlake and Badger, Tulare Co., TVoolsey ; Weldon, Kern Co., Voegelin 208. Mohave 

 Desert: Antelope Valley, n. Los Angeles Co. (Erythea 3:154) ; Victorville; Barstow. Cismontane 

 S. Cal.: Orcutt, Santa Barbara Co., Jepson; North Pomona, Braunton 200; San Bernardino, 

 Jepson 5594; San Jacinto, Jepson 1252; Temecula, C. V. Meyer 151; San Diego, Spencer 142. 

 Colorado Desert (w. side) : San Felipe Valley, Jepson; Box Canon, Mason Valley, e. San Diego 

 Co., Jepson 8666. 



Refs. — Salvia carddacea Benth., Lab. Gen. et Sp. 302 (1833), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 Hook, f., Bot. Mag. t. 4874 (1855) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 459 (1901), ed. 2, 358 (1911), Man. 

 868 (1925). S. gossypina Benth., PI. Hartw. 330 (1849), type loc. Sacramento Valley, Hartweg 

 305 ; but not since found. 



2. S. funerea Jones. Densely branched bush 2 to 21/2 feet high ; herbage white- 

 woolly; leaf -blades ovate to ovate-laneeolate or lanceolate, often somewhat eon- 

 duplicate or folded, leathery, coarsely nerved, acuminate and conspicuously spine- 

 tipped, entire or with 1 or 2 pairs of spiny teeth on the sides, % to IV2 inches long, 

 narrowed to a short broad petiole; bracts broadly lanceolate to broadly ovate, 

 abruptly spinose, densely and closely woolly ; flowers in a leafy spike, the spike 

 rather dense ; calyx-tube cylindric, inflated, very tomeutose and resembling a pellet 

 of wool, 3 lines long, the 5 equal teeth short, cuspidate, almost wholly concealed ; 

 corolla purple, its lobes oblong or elliptic save the middle lobe of lower lip, this 

 larger, dilated and rounded, erosulate, a little hairy on lower part ; sides of upper 

 lip turned backward ; upper anther-cell somewhat declined or pendulous, the lower 

 anther-cell horizontal and larger. 



Dry hills and washes, 1000 to 2300 feet : foothills and ranges bordering Death 

 Valley, Inyo Co. Apr.-May. 



Endemism note. — Salvia funerea of Death Valley is a species of remarkable distinctness. 

 It is even more remarkable as a narrow endemic, since it is limited to a longitudinal range of about 

 16 miles, as evidenced by present knowledge. The folio-wing localities may be noted: wash east 

 of Furnace Creek ranch. Funeral Mts., Jepson 6891 ; Grotto Canon, Tucki Mt., n. end of Panamint 

 Range, Eoalc 4' Thaclier ; Titus Caiion, Grapevine Mts., Jepson 19,852. 



Refs. — Salvia funerea Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 12:71 (1908), type loc. Funeral Mts., Jones; 

 Jepson, Man. 868 (1925). S. funerea var. fornacis Jepson, I.e., type loc. Furnace Creek, Death 

 Valley, Parish 10,032. 



3. S. greatae Bdg. Shrub, 3 to 4 feet high ; herbage glandular-puberulent, the 

 stems white and the leaf -blades green; leaf -blades broadly ovate, 3 to 5-nerved, 

 spine-tipped and bearing 1 to 3 pairs of remote or divergent spiny teeth on the sides, 

 % to 1^4 inches long, sessile ; flowering branches with 4 or 5 remote flower-whorls ; 

 outer bracts like the leaves, the inner becoming linear-lanceolate ; calyx 4 lines long, 

 the upper lip spine-tipped and with 2 smaller spine-like teeth near its base, the lower 

 lip of 2 spine-tipped lobes; corolla purple, about twice as long as calyx ; upper lip 

 IV2 lines long, 2-cleft, the lobes acute ; lower lip slightly longer, 3-lobed, the middle 

 lobe fimbriate; anther of lower fork of connective half the length of the upper one 

 and pollen-bearing. 



Open sandy ground of diy washes and detrital fans, 50 to 400 feet : south side 

 of Orocopia Mts., north side of the Colorado Desert. Peb.-Apr. 



Geog. note. — Salvia greatae, an exceptionally well-marked species, is aji extremely narrow 

 endemic which is chiefly found on the bajadas and on the mesas bordering the south side of the 

 Orocopia Mountains in the northern part of the Colorado Desert. The longitudinal east and west 

 range, as at present kno^vn, is about 15 miles. The following localities may be cited: Dos Palmas 

 (4 mi. n.). Clary 2185; Orocopia Mts. (bajada at s. base). Clary 2844; Caiion Sprs., Clary (an 

 area about 2 miles broad) ; Clemens Well, Big Salt Creek wash, Clary 2845. At the request of 

 the author, Marjorie D. Clary made an exploratory survey of the area inhabited by this remarkable 

 endemic. Her report follows : 



"Salvia greatae is localized in the Orocopia Mountains area on the north side of the Colorado 

 Desert north of the Salton Sea. The main station lies above Dos Palmas Spring near the southeast 

 base of the Orocopias. It has also been reported from the caiions back of Hidden Springs on the 



