New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 109 
compression. Corolla 3 mm. long, the tube abruptly much 
contracted above the base, the throat rather abruptly expanded, 
e upper lip nearly twice as long as the lower, very broad, wit 
nate margin, the lower 3-lobed, the lobes spreading. 
"Growing in dense mats, in sand, at Mollendo, Peru, sea- 
level, the flowers blue, August 5, r901.” (R. S. Williams, No. 
Cre 2933.) 
Salvia tenuistachya. 
Inflorescence minutely puberulent. Stems slender, sharply 
angled above. Upper petioles indistinguishable uid the 
acuminate leaf bases, some of the lower up to 3 or 4 cm. bn 
slender, ade 6 to 12 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. broad, ovate an 
longer, bifid 8 mm. long, 
, , all acuminate and acu 
the lips nearly half of the length, the upper entire, and vain 
the lower t ree-lobed, its middle lobe narrower. +1 
Wi onch short, broad, obtuse, the upper elongat 
filiform, , , 
