368 LABIATE. Salvia. 



Dr. Henry, Thurher ; Florence Mountains, Bigelow. Adjacent borders of Texas, Wrirjht. — 

 Throat of the calyx rather sparsely but not inconspicuously bearded ! 



§ 4. CALosriiACE, Beiitli. Throat of calyx naked, and of corolla not pilose- 

 aunidate : anterior portion of the connective deflexed, linear or gradually some- 

 what dilated downward, closely approximate or connate, and destitute of an 

 anther-cell : all American species, with upper lip of corolla erect and concave. 



* Corolla crimson, its tube villoiis-anmilate towards the base inside ; upper lip conspicuously 

 liU-jAcr and longer than the lower: anterior fork of connecti\cs free and spatnlate-dilated dowii- 

 ^^•a^is, obscuiely one-toothed at base, longer than the filament. 



S. pentstemonoides, Kunth. Perennial, nearly glabrous, or below sparsely hirsute : 

 stems 2 to 5 feet high, leafy to the sunnnit: leaves tliickish, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 niucronate, entire or ol)scurcly denticulate and with ciliolate-scabrous Tuargins, the lower 

 (3 to 5 inclies long) on long margined petioles; upper gradually mucli smaller and sessile; 

 the floral and tlie similar persistent bracts and bractlcts of the elongated racemiform or 

 narrowly thyrsoidal inflorescence ovate-lanceolate or narrower, cuspidate: eyniules subses- 

 sile, o-5-flowereil : calyx equalled by the pedicels, campanulate, strongly bilabiate (half 

 inch long), glandular-puberulont ; upper lip broad, truncate, with ?> short and broad cuspi- 

 date-mucronate teetli ; lower 2-i)arted, its teeth lanceolate and cuspidate : corolla inch and 

 a half long, slightly pubescent; its large and nearly straight upper lip half the length of 

 the gradually enlarged cxsertcd tube ; middle lobe of the small lower lip concave and entire : 

 style glabrous. — Ind. Hem. Berol. 1848, i:i — W. Texas, on the Cibolo and Tierdenales and 

 towards the Kio Grande, Lindheimer, \Vri</ht. 



* * Lower and sterile forks of the connectives mostly united with each other longitudinally, linear, 

 oblong, or semiliastate: corolla naked within throughout, 



^t— K^d or scarlet, witii tube exserted; the spreading lower lip longer than the erect upper one, its 

 broad mici.dle lobe 2-cIeft : upper lip of tubular-campanulate calyx and teeth of the 2-parted lower 

 lip ovate, mucronate-acutc: intiorescence naked-racemose; the small floral leaves or bracts more 

 or less deciduous or caducous. 

 S. Greggii, Gray. Shrubby, 1 to .3 feet bigb, glabrous or obscm-ely farinaccous-puberu- 

 lent : branches slender, leafy : leaves coriaceous (3 to 9 lines long), 1-ribbed, almost vein- 

 less, oblong, very obtuse, entire, narrowed at base into a sliort petiole : flowers rather few 

 in the raceme: calyx slightly pubescent or glandular (barely half inch long), with at 

 length spreading lips fully half the length of the tube : corolla (inch long, "red " or " pur- 

 plish-red ") glabrous; its tube enlarging and strongly ventricose-gibbous ; tliroat abruptly 

 contracted under the lower lip, which nearly equals the slightly glandular-pubendent upper 

 one : lower fork of connective oblong-linear : style hairy along the ujiper side. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. viii. 3G9. S. mirrop/ii/lld, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 131, not IIBK. — S. borders of 

 Texas, on the Rio Grande, Parry, Scliolt. (Near Saltillo, Mex., Grei/g.) 

 S. COCcinea, L. Perennial or annual, canescently pubescent or glabrate, or hirsute tow- 

 ards the base with long spreading hairs : leaves membranaceous, veiny, cordate or ovate, 

 mostly acute, crcnate, slender-petioled, mostly soft-tomentulose beneath : raceme virgate ; 

 the clusters few-several-flowered and rather distant : lips of tlic calyx hardly half the 

 length of its tube: corolla (inch or less long, pubescent or puberulent outside) deep scar- 

 let-red, twice or thrice the length of the calyx ; its narrow tube moderately eidarging 

 above ; lower lip twice the length of the upper, from which the stamens protrude : lower 

 forks of the connective long and narrowly linear: style glabrous. — Mant. 88; Murr. 

 Comm. Gott. 1778, t. 1. — Var. psCudo-rocrhicn is a commonly tall form of this si)ecies, 

 •with stem, petioles, and often margins of floral leaves conspicuously beset with hirsute 

 hairs. S. pseudo-cocci m'a, Jacq. Ic. Har. t. 209 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2864. aS'. ciliata, Beiith. Lab 

 286. — S. Carolina to Florida (but probably introduced), S. Texas. (Mex., &c.) 

 .(_- ^_ Corolla blue or purplish, sometimes white, never red. 

 +-i- Herbs. 

 = Flowers from near an inch to over half inch and calyx fully quarter inch long: inflorescence 

 virgate-raceniose or s])iciform, somclimes paniculate: small floral leaves or bracts mostly deiidii- 

 ous : c(n-olla with prominently exserted tube, erect and very concave or galeate and pulusccnt 

 upper lip; the lower longer and much larger: style bearded above: perennials, 1 to 5 feet high. 

 S. f arinacea, Benth. Minutely and canescently puberulent, or below glabrous : stems 

 numerous in a cluster: lower leaves ovatedanceolate or even ovate, with obtuse or cuncate 



