370 LABIATE. Salvia. 



racemes simple, at first oblong, and the flowers crowded: calyx glandular-hirsute, with 

 oblong-oampanulate tube (3 lines long in fruit) of nearly tlirice the length of the lips ; 

 upper lip broadly ovate, acutisli ; lower deltoid-ovate, mucronate-acute : corolla 3 to 5 

 lines long, the whole tube included : style beardless. — Mant. 25 ; Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 3 ; 

 Ciiapm. FI. 319. S. Dominica, Vahl, Enura. i. 233; Swartz, Obs. 18, t. 1, fig. 1, not L. — 

 S. Florida. (W. Ind.) 



S. albiflora, Mart. & Gal. Glabrous throughout, 2 to 4 feet high, paniculately branched : 

 leaves rhombic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acutely serrate (inch or two long) ; 

 floral abruptly reduced to minute lanceolate and subulate bracts : clusters of rather loose 

 raceme approximate: calyx (often amethystine-tinged) with campanulate tube (2 lines 

 long), twice tlie length of the lips; upper lip broadly ovate and entire; lower 2-toothed 

 or parted into broad acute lobes: corolla (probably bluish) 4 or 5 lines long, with tube 

 almost included: style bearded along the base of the mucii longer upper lobe. — (Bull. 

 Acad. Brux., ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. 1. c. .307 1) Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 131. — S. Arizona 

 or Mexican border near it, Thurber, Scholt. (Mex.) 



S. Arizonica. Glabrous, except 2 puberulent lines down the stem, a foot or more high : 

 leaves deltoid-ovate or witli abruptly cuneate base, acute, coarsely and obtusely serrate (an 

 inch long besides tlie slender petiole) : inflorescence spiciform and interrupted ; clusters sev- 

 eral-flowered : pedicels siiort (a line long) : floral leaves abruptly reduced to membranaceous 

 ovate-lanceolate and caudate bracts, whicli equal the flowers and are caducous: calyx 

 4 lines long, bilabiate to the middle or nearly ; its upper lip subulately 3-toothed and 

 h)wer more strongly 2-toothed: corolla (blue) fully half inch long, with tube a little 

 exserted : style beardless. — S. Arizona, on Mount Graham, at 9,250 feet, Rutlnock. 



S. urticifolia, L. A foot or two high, villous-pubescent and somewliat viscid, or glabrate : 

 leaves coarsely and obtusely serrate, ovate, acute, with truncate or sometimes cuneate 

 base decurrent into a winged petiole, pale beneath, 2 to 4 inches long; floral all reduced to 

 small ovate and slender-acuminate verj' caducous bracts : inflorescence racemose-spiciform, 

 of numerous and several-flowered distant clusters : pedicels as long as the tube of the 

 oblong-campanulate calyx ; the broad lips of which are divergent and half tlie length of 

 the tube, tlie upper mucronately (often minutely) .3-toothed, lower 2-cleft, its teeth broadly 

 triangular-ovate and mucronate : corolla blue and wliite (5 or lines long), twice tiie 

 lengtli of the calyx, its ample sinuately 3-lobed lower lip about twice the length of the 

 upper, its broad middle lobe emarginate : connective ciliate opposite the insertion ; its 

 subulate antiieriferous fork obtusely toothed toward the base, and lower fork scmihastate : 

 style strongly villous-bcarded along the base of its much longer upper fork. — Spec. i. 24. 

 S. Clai/toiii, M. A. Curtis, Cat. PI. N. Car., not Ell. ? — Maryland and Kentucky to Georgia 

 and Louisiana. 



== = == Flowers only a third or a quarter inch long: corolla tube not exserted: inflorescence 

 sleiider-spicate ; tlie flowers or small chisters mostly distant. 



a. St}'Ie-lobes or stigmas one or both subulate. 



S. Chapmani. Tall and erect perennial, tomentulose or cinereous-pubernlent : leaves 

 thickisli, ovate or ovate-lanceolate with short cuneate base, somewhat appressed-serrate or 

 crenulate (2 or 3 inches long) ; tlie floral all reduced to small and membranaceous ovate 

 cordate-acuminate caducous bracts : calyx campanulate, in fruit 2 lines long ; teeth short 

 and broad, mucronate : corolla 4 lines long and with the ample lower lip of the preceding 

 species. — <S'. urticifolia, var. major, Chai)m. Fl. 319. — Middli; Florida, Chapman. Alabama, 

 BtirJdcy. 



S. Blodgettii, Chapm. Fl. 319, founded on incomplete specimens from S. Florida (Key 

 West), Z>/or/r/('//, apparently an annual, with indurated base; tliin ovate leaves obtuse at 

 both ends, about half inch long, on filiform petioles of equal lengtii; bracts of filiform 

 racemes lanceolate or subulate, rather persistent, shorter than the pedicels ; these a line 

 long; calyx 2 lines, very like tliat oi S. serotina. It may prove to be either S. tenella, 

 Swartz, or S. micrantha, Vahl (referred to it by Grisebach), weedy and insignificant W. 

 Indian species, likely to stray to Key West. 



b. Style-lobes or stigmas both broad and thin, roundish, very obtuse or truncate: caly.K glandular- 

 hirsute. 



S. OCcidentalis, S"Wartz. Diffuse annual, minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous up to 

 the very slender inflorescence (which has the aspect of that of Verbena ojficinalis) : stems 2 



