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below and cuneate to a short (2 to 4 mm. long) petiole, scabrous above, 

 more or less pilose-hispid beneath on the nerves : cymes svibaxillary or 

 terminal : peduncles 2 to 5 cm. long, pilose-hispid with mostly appressed 

 hairs ; primary branches mostly 3, more or less forked : calyx hemi- 

 spherical, appressed-pubesceut, becoming 4 mm. high, cleft half-way to 

 base into deltoid awn-tipped lobes : corolla 6 or 7 mm. long, about 

 equalled by the stamens : fruit ovate-oblong, 6 mm. long. — Chiapas, 

 table-land about Ocuilapa, alt. 1045 to 1170 m., Aug. 21, 1895 

 {E. W. Nelson, no. 3003). 



Salvia (Micranthae) tehuacana. Simple or branching annual 3 to 

 5 dm. high ; the stems and petioles setulose with crisp spreading white 

 hairs; the middle internodes 1 to 1.5 dm. long, the lower and upper much 

 shorter : leaves broad-ovate, blunt, rounded at base, the primary ones 



3 to 5 era. long, coarsely short-dentate, sparingly pilose-setulose or 

 glabrate above, glabrous beneath or with occasional hairs on the midrib ; 

 lower petioles equalling or exceeding the blades, the upper much shorter: 

 racemes stiff, becoming 1 or 2dm. long; rachis densely glandular-puber- 

 ulent ; the verticels 2-6-tlowered, all becoming remote, the lowest finally 



4 cm. apart; bracts caducous, ovate, 1 cm. long, strongly ciliate, the 

 scarious body hardly equalling the subulate herbaceous awn : calyx cani- 

 panulate, setulose, sparingly glandular, in anthesis 5 or 6 mm., in fruit 

 8 mm. long; the lobes ovate, blunt : corolla 1 cm. long, the slender whiti; 

 tube exserted ; the smooth blue lip much exceeding the galea. — Poebla, 

 thin soil of calcareous hills near Tehuacan, Aug. 1901 (C. G. Pringle, 

 no. 8587). Nearest related apparently to S. permixta, Briquet (no. 15 

 of the writer's synopsis). Differing from that in its setulose stem, long 

 awn-tipped bracts, and blunt calyx lobes. Superficially resembling 

 S. podadena, Briquet {S. ageratifolia, Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad, xxxvi. 

 499), but quickly distinguished by the glandless hairs of the stem, the 

 rounded not cordate more shallowly toothed leaves, the glandular-puber- 

 ulent rachis and the blunt calyx-lobes. 



Salvia (Vulgares) molina. Herbaceous, branching, nearly 1 m. 

 high, the stem closely fine-puberulent, especially on the deeply sulcait- 

 decussating bands : leaves firm, 0.5 to 1 dm. long, rhombic-ovate, attenu- 

 ate-acuminate, cuneate at base to a slender petiole 1 to 2 cm. long, 

 coarsely but bluntly serrate, green above and minutely pubescent with 

 short appressed hairs, cinereous beneath and closely fine-puberulent : 

 primary racemes becoming 4 dm. long, the secondary ones much shorter ; 

 verticels 1 0-40-flowered, becoming subequally remote: bracts ovate- 

 oblong, acuminate, pulverulent, caducous : pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long, 



