1260 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HEEBAEIUM. 



HH. Leaves more or less pilose or tomentose beneath. 

 Pubescent stellate. 



Calyx 12 to 13 mm. long 74. S. rosei. 



Calyx 5 mm. long 75, S. arbuscula. 



Pubescence not stellate. 



Leaves merely pilose beneatli. 

 Leaves broadly ovate ; corolla deep purple-violet. 



76. S. iodantlia. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate ; corolla flesh-colored. 



77. S. miclioacana. 

 Leaves velutinous or lanate beneath. 

 Leaves serrate; calyx lobes broad, mucronate. 



78. S. nervata. 

 Leaves crenate ; calyx lobes long-acuminate. 



79. S. karwinskii. 

 GG. Corolla scarlet or vermilion. 

 Calyx lips unequal, the upper one produced into a subulate 



awn, the low^er one short 80. S. cinnabarina. 



Calyx lips subequal. 



Calyx lobes subulate-tipped 81. S. elegans. 



Calyx lobes not subulate-tipped. 



Bracts 2 to 3 cm. long, persistent 82. S. mollissima. 



Bracts smaller, deciduous 83. S. coccinea. 



1. Salvia leucantha Cav. Icon. PI. 1: 16. pi. 2J,. 1791. 

 Salvia bicolor Sesse & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 8. 1887. 

 Zacatecas to Puebla and Morelos. 



Plants chiefly herbaceous, sometimes suffrutescent below : leaves short- 

 petiolate, 5 to 17 cm. long, attenuate, crenulate, green above, tomentose be- 

 neath ; flowers in long racemes ; calyx nearly 1 cm. long, covered with 

 beautiful purple wool ; corolla about 18 mm. long. 



2. Salvia lantanaefolia Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 112; 69. 1844. 

 Puebla ; type from Teliuacan. 



Shrub ; leaves obtuse, green above, tomentose beneath ; flowers in dense 

 racemes; calyx about 1 cm. long. 



3. Salvia populifolia Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 35: 530. 1900. 

 Type from BolaSos, Jalisco. 



Shrub ; leaves acute, crenulate, green and glabrate above, whitish-tomentose 

 beneath ; calyx in anthesis about 18 mm. long, the lobes acuminate ; corolla 

 3.5 cm. long. 



4. Salvia nelsonii Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 35: 527. 1900. 

 Salvia albicans Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 36: 501. 1901. 



Guerrero, Puebla, and Morelos; type collected between Acatian and Piaxtla, 

 Puebla. 



Shrub, 2.5 to 5 meters high, the branches cinereous-puberulent ; leaves ovate, 

 acute or acuminate, rounded at base, serrulate, finely canescent-puberulent ; 

 flowers in dense spikelike racemes ; calyx 8 mm. long, densely white-tomentose, 

 the lobes obtuse; corolla about 14 mm. long, blue and white. 



5. Salvia shannoni Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 19: 256. 1894. 

 Oaxaca and Chiapas. Guatemala ; type from VolcSn Chingo. 



Shrub ; leaves lanceolate to ovate, obtuse or cordate at base, acuminate, ser- 

 rate or crenate-serrate, green above ; racemes very thick and dense, the bracts 

 purplish; calyx about 1 cm. long, the lobes acute. 



