New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 111 
rigid acute points about 2 mm. long. Corolla 6 to 8 cm. long, 
very loosely enclosed in the calyx, narrowly infundibular, the 
lips about a third of the length. Tube somewhat ventricose, 
straight. Upper lip concave, enclosing the upper anther-cells, 
which are 4 mm. long, attached slightly above the base. Fila- 
ments short and thick. Both branches of the connective 
dilated and broader than the theca, with a strong brown middle 
line, the upper I2 mm. long, the lower 8 or 9 mm. long an 
completely connate except for the notched end. Style-branches 
exserted, the lower narrowly subulate, the upper long-attenuate 
and sigmoid curved. Nutlet 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. br 
ovoid, obtuse, slightly curved, deeply 3-sulcate. 
" A shrub 6 or 8 feet high, the flowers varying from vivid 
scarlet to dull red, the calyx the same or greenish. Common 
locally in damp mountain forest, usually in boggy ground, 
Sierra del Libano, about 6000 feet. Collected in March." 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1380.) 
ad, 
dibular, the upper 
h 
e 
lobes at the base. Filament filiform, 
connective short, bearing a small empty theca, 
as long, fertile. 
“Near Jiracasaca, in a damp clearing in a ravine, 2,500 
feet.” (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1371. 
Salvia secundiflora. 
portions 
, tOUnger and lower leaf-surfaces sparsely 
minutely strigose, or the 
and 
latter glabrous. Stems slender, 
