BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
CamsripGe, Massacnusetts, DecemBer 28, 1962 
VoL. 
ANEW SPECIES OF SALVIA FROM MEXICO 
BY 
CarL Eruinc’ anp Carwos D. Jatriva-M.' 
In the course of his studies of narcotic plants in southern 
Mexico, Mr. R. Gordon Wasson became interested in a 
member of the Labiatae which is employed by the Maza- 
tec Indians of Oaxaca as a psychotropic drug. 
An examination of material from the Mazatec country 
indicates that the plant in question is an undescribed 
species of Salvia: 
Salvia divinorum (Dusenostachys) pling & Jativa 
sp. NOv. 
Herba perennis altitudine 1 m. et ultra, caulibus pilis 
plus minusve articulatis pubescentibus: foliorum laminis 
plus minusve ovatis, 12-15 em. longis, in apice acumina- 
tis, in basi plus minusve rotundatis et ad petiolos 2-8 cm. 
longis attenuatis, ad margines crenato-serratis et in sini- 
bus hirtellis, paginis ambabus glabratis nisi inferiore ad 
venas hirtella; floribus in verticillastris sat distantibus ut 
videtur in paniculis amplis, ramis 80-40 cm. longis cyaneo- 
puberulis; pedicellis gracilibus 8-9 mm. longis; calycum 
cyaneorum glabrorum tubo in maturitate 15 mm. lon- 
gorum labia superiore 1.5 mm. longa, imprimis 8-venia; 
corollarum cyanearum sigmoidearum tubo 22 mm. longo, 
‘Herbarium, Department of Botany, University of California, Los 
Angeles, California. 
