1262 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



16. Salvia lycioides A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 21: 408. 1886. 

 Santa Eulalia Mountains of Chihuahua. 



Slender shrub, the branches sparsely puberulent or glabrate; leaves mostly 

 obtuse ; racemes slender, elongate, interrupted ; calyx 6 to 8 mm. long ; corolla 

 nearly 2 cm. long. 



17. Salvia ballotaeflora Benth. Lab. Gen, & Sp. 270. 1834. 

 Salvia laxa Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 270. 1834. 



Salvia Mllotaefiora eulaliae Femald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 35: 522. 1900. 



Chihuahua to Zacatecas, Hidalgo, and Tamaulipas; type from Tollman 

 (Quer6taro ?). Western Texas. 



Low shrub ; leaves broadly deltoid-ovate, 1 to 3 cm. long, obtuse, densely 

 stellate-tomentose beneath, usually truncate at base but rarely subcordate; 

 racemes short, few-flowered; calyx 5 to 9 mm. long, the lobes very obtuse; 

 corolla about 12 mm. long. " Engorda-cabra " (Zacatecas); " crespa " (San 

 Luis PotosI) ; " mejorana " (Texas, Chihuahua) ; " mejorana del pals" (Chi- 

 hualiua). 



S. ballotaeflora eulaliae is a form with large leaves (3 cm. long). 



18. Salvia ramosa T. S. Brandeg. Zoe 5: 255. 1908. 

 Type from Tlacuilotepec, Puebla. 



Shrub; leaves 1 cm. long or less, obtuse or rounded at apex, very rugose, 

 finely stellate-puberulent, green above; racemes elongate, interrupted; calyx 

 4 to 5 mm. long ; corolla about 7 mm. long. 



19. Salvia platycheila A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 292. 1870. 

 Carmen Island, Baja California. 



Shrub ; leaves slender-petiolate, 2 to 4.5 cm. long, very obtuse, very minutely 

 and densely tomentulose; racemes short or elongate, interrupted; calyx 8 to 

 12 mm. long, minutely tomentulose; corolla nearly 2 cm. long. 



20. Salvia similis T. S. Brandeg. Zoe 5: 108. 1901. 



Baja California ; type from mountains of the Cape Region. 



Much-branched shrub, 1 to 3 meters high, the stems minutely canescent- 

 tomentulose ; leaves ovate, 2.5 to 7.5 cm. long, coarsely crenate-serrate, minutely 

 stellate-tomentulose when young but soon glabrous ; racemes short, dense ; 

 calyx 5 to 7 mm. long; corolla pale blue. 



21. Salvia cedrosensis Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 212. 1885. 

 Baja California ; type from Cedros Island. 



Low shrub ; leaves slender-petiolate, ovate or broadly ovate, 2.5 cm. long 

 or less, obtuse or acute, crenate, sparsely stellate-pubescent in age; racemes 

 short or elongate, interrupted ; calyx 5 to 7 mm. long, violet. 



22. Salvia chamaedryoides Cav. Icon. PI. 2: 77. pi. 197. 1793. 

 Salvia chamaedri folia Andrews, Bot. Rep. 6: pi. J/IG. 1805 (?). 

 Salvia chamaedrys Willd. Hort. Berol. 1 : 29. pi. 29. 1816. 



Salvia chamaedryoides isochroma Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 35: 522. 1900. 



Zacatecas and San Luis PotosI to Mexico. 



Low shrub, usually about 40 cm. high ; leaves 1 to 3.5 cm. long, obtuse, finely 

 crenate, canescent-tomentose, sometimes green above; racemes elongate, inter- 

 rupted ; calyx 7 to 12 mm. long, often tinged with violet ; corolla about 12 mm. 

 long. 



23. Salvia purpusii T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 187. 1911. 

 Type from Cerro del Zapatero, Coahuila. 



Low shrub, the branches glandular-pubescent ; leaves 1.5 to 3 cm. long, 

 obtuse, coarsely crenate, the lower ones (oblong) sometimes cordate at base. 



