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at base ; flower heads 8 to 10 mm. in diameter, very dense, globose. " Salvia 

 real" (San Luis PotosI, Veracruz); "salvia de bolita " (Mexico); "salvia 

 India " ( QuerStaro ) . 



The plant is very ai-omatic and slightly bitter. A hot tea made from the 

 leaves is administered for neuralgic pains and as a stimulating medicine. The 

 plant is employed also to reduce perspiration, especially in tuberculosis. 



6. Buddleia scordioides H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 345. pi. 183. 1817. 

 Buddlcia scordioides capitata S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 18: 116. 1883. 

 Chihuahua to San Luis Potosi, Hidalgo, and Mexico ; type collected near 



the City of Mexico. Western Texas and southern Arizona. 



Aromatic shrub, a meter high or less; leaves coarsely crenate, rugose, 

 tomentose, or glabrate above ; flower heads 5 to 8 mm. in diameter, densely 

 lanate. "Salvia" (Durango) ; " escobilla " (Durango, Coahuila, San Luis 

 Potosi, Valley of Mexico); " hierba de las escobas " (San Luis PotosI); 

 " golondrilla " (Durango, Coahuila). 



Tea made from the plant is much used as a remedy for indigestion. Stock 

 are said to be fond of the shrub. 



7. Buddleia tuxtlica Loesener, Verb. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 53: 73. 1911. 

 Type from Hacienda Petapa, Distrito de Tuxtla, Chiapas. 



Leaves lanceolate to oblong or subrhombic, 2 to 7 cm. long, serrate or entire, 

 decurrent to base of petiole, densely stellate-tomentose beneath ; calyx 2 mm. 

 long. 



Known to the writer only from the original description. 



8. Buddleia sessiliflora H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 345. pi. 183. 1817. 

 Buddlcia vcrticillata H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 346. pi. 184. 1817. 

 Buddleia pseudoverticiUata Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 12^: 24. 1845. 

 Buddleia melliodora Kunth, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 10. 1845. 



Buddleia barbata Kunth, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 12. 1847. 



Buddleia pringlei A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 19: 86. 1883. 



Buddleia simplex Krilnzlein, Ann. Naturhist. Ilofmus. Wien 26: 396. 1912. 



Sonora to Coahuila, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and Oaxaca; type collected 

 near the City of Mexico. Southern Arizona. 



Shrub or small tree, 1 to 5 meters high ; leaves narrowly lanceolate to 

 broadly rhombic-ovate, 5 to IS cm. long ; attenuate or decurrent at bas^e, entire 

 or serrate, usually densely tomentose, at least beneath, but sometimes gla- 

 brous ; flower heads 1 to 2 cm. in diameter, usually dense and many-flowered, 

 sometimes in naked terminal spikes, the flowers greenish yellow, very fragrant. 

 " Tepozan " (Quergtaro, Aguascalientes, Morelos, Guanajuato, Tamaulipas) ; 

 "hierba del tepozSn" (Sinaloa) ; " tepoja " (Michoacan, Guerrero) ; " tepoza " 

 (Jalisco); " tepozan verde " (Guanajuato); " lengua de vaca " (Morelos, Oax- 

 aca); " tepuza," " tepozancillo," "salvia" (Urbina) ; " mispatle," " quimix- 

 patli " (Valley of Mexico). 



A tea made from the leaves, bark, and roots is taken internally for various 

 purposes, and the leaves, boiled with salt, are applied to wounds and sores. 



9. Buddleia tomentella Standi., sp. nov. 



Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Zacatecas ; type from Saltillo, Coahuila (Palmer 

 138; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 336132). 



Shrub, the branchlets minutely tomentulose; leaves long-petiolate, ovate- 

 lanceolate to oblong-ovate or deltoid-ovate, 5 to 11 cm. long, acute or acuminate, 

 entire or crenate-serrate, tomentulose above at first but soon glabrate, covered 

 beneath with a very dense, minute, closely appressed, pale tomentum, coria- 

 ceous; flower heads small, few-flowered, in large terminal naked panicles. 



