sessile, 1 inch long; slender spikes 6 inches long, half as long 

 as the plant; flowers few in clusters which are about the 

 Jength of the leaves, a part subtended by leaves which are 

 gradually reduced above; calyx nearly sessile, somewhat 

 viscidly hairy, the tube campanulate, V/z lines long and nearly 

 equaled by the rigid spreading, acerose and triangular teeth; 

 corolla 2-'^ lines long, narrow and very small, tube not ex- 

 serted, purple. This grows on the maVgins of rivulets and 

 ponds in Mound Vallev, Sierra Madre Mts., Chihuahua, xMex- 

 ico, September 18, 1903. 



Salvia Arizonica var. Huachucana n. var. 

 This is like the type, but the calyx and leaves have raised 

 aud reddish brown atoms, and the style is long-bearded like a 

 swab at the end. Near the top of the Huachuca Mts., Arizona, 

 at 7000 feet altitude, Sept. 4, 1903. 

 Salvia funerea n. sp. 



A densely tufted shrub becoming several years old like 

 Audibertia incana; ascending, 5 lines long, tube nearly linear 

 and abruptly spreading, flowers delicate deep blue, the lower 

 lobe of the corolla a little declined, faintly pleated and lacerate 

 and crumpled, the outside lobe finger-like, blue and blunt, the 

 upper lobe with broad and triangular notch with acute tips; 

 calyx greatly inflated and covered with a fine and thick wool 

 composed of much branched soft hairs, resembling pellets of 

 ^^ool 3-4 lines long, 1 in each axil mostly, sessile; inflorescence 

 spicate on the upper half or third of the stems and spikes 

 simple and rigid, leafy-bracted throughout, the leaves reduced 

 gradually but never altered in character; lowest leaves ovate 

 to rhomboidal, folded and deeply creased, very coarsely ribbed, 

 8-12 lines long, shortly-acuminate at tip, entire, very leathery 

 and hard to dry acerose-tipped, the subulate brown awn being 

 1-3 lines long," abruptly contracted into very wide petiole 

 one-quarter to one-fifth the blade, the central leaves mostly 

 rhombic-lanceolate and acuminate at both ends, entire, 1/i 

 inches long, but entire like the lower ones ; upper eaves and 

 lower bracteal ones broadly ovate and like the basal ones, but 

 coarsely 3-7-toothed and acerose, about 1 inch long, the upper- 

 most bracteal ones rhomboidal and short; the corymbose 

 branches with white and flaky bark and slender ; season s 

 twigs strict and simple, 4-6 inches long, white-wooHy, as are 

 also the leaves ; internodes lYi inches long Growing m dense 

 and rounded tufts about 2 feet high on the hottest volcanic 



