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80. Salvia cinnabarina Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 112: 63. 1844. 

 Oaxaca and Chiapas ; type from Cerro de San Felipe, Oaxaca. Guatemala. 

 Plants herbaceous or suffrutescent ; leaves ovate, 3 to 12 cm. long, acute or 



acuminate, obtuse or rounded at base, serrulate, thinly tomentose or glabrate 

 beneath ; racemes elongate ; corolla bright red, about 8 cm. long. 



81. Salvia elegans Vahl, Enum. PI. 1: 238. 1804. 



Salvia incarnata Cav. Anal. Cienc. Nat. 2: 112. 1800. Not S. incarnata. 

 Etling. 1777. 



Salvia punicea Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 112; 65. 1844, 



Salvia microcalyx Scheele, Linnaea 22: 589. 1849. 



Salvia longiflora Sess6 & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 8. 1887. 



Salvia elegans sonorensis Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 35: 550. 1900. 



Sonora and Chihuahua to Veracruz and Oaxaca. 



Plants fruticose or herbaceous ; leaves chiefly ovate, 3 to 10 cm. long, obtuse 

 to acuminate, serrate or ci'enate, pubescent or glabrate beneath ; racemes lax, 

 elongate ; corolla bright red, 3 to 3.5 cm. long. 



82. Salvia mollissima Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 112; 71. 1844. 

 Type from Oaxaca. 



Stems chiefly herbaceous, hirsute ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 7.5 cm. long, 

 acuminate, crenate, white-tomentose beneath ; calyx 8 to 10 mm. long ; corolla 

 2.5 cm. long. 



S3. Salvia coccinea Juss. ; Murr. Comm. Gott. 1 : 86. pi. 1. 1778. , 



Salvia pseudococcinea Jacq. Coll. Bot. 2: 302. 1788. 



Salvia ciliata Benth. Lab. Gen & Sp. 286. 1834. 



Salvia galeottii Mart.; Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 112; 75. 1844. 



Salvia coccinea pseudococcinea Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 530. 1891. 



Tamaulipas and Nuevo Le6n to Tepic, Chiapas, and Yucatan. Widely dis- 

 tributed in tropical America. 



Stems usually herbaceous but sometimes suffrutescent, commonly hirsute; 

 leaves ovate or deltoid, 1.5 to 5 cm. long, obtuse or acute, crenate, tomentose 

 or pubescent beneath ; racemes short or elongate ; calyx 6 to 9 mm. long ; 

 corolla about 2.5 cm. long, bright red. " Mirto " (Nuevo Leon). 



This species is commonly cultivated as an ornamental plant xmder the names 

 " salvia " and " scarlet sage." Several horticultural forms are known. 



3. CUNTLA L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1359. 1759. 



Low shrubs or herbs ; leaves serrate or entire ; flowers small, in dense or 

 loose clusters, these axillary or in terminal spikes ; calyx tubular, 10 to 13- 

 nerved, barbate in the throat, the 5 teeth subequal ; corolla bilabiate ; sta- 

 mens 2. 

 Bractlets equaling the calyx ; flowers sessile or nearly so, in dense spikes. 



1. C, lythrifolia. 

 Bractlets much shorter than the calyx; flowers pedicellate. 



Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, usually 3 times as long. 



2. C. longiflora. 

 Corolla less than twice as long as the calyx. 



Flower clusters arranged in rounded cymes 3. C. pycnantha. 



Flower clusters spicate. 



Leaves densely tomentose beneath 4. C. tomentosa. 



Leaves thinly villous or glabrate beneath. 



Stems villosulous 5. C. polyantha. 



Stems glabrous 6. C. leucantha. 



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