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4. Hyptis mociniana Benth. Lab. Gen, & Sp. 129. 1834. 



Veracruz and Chiapas. Central America. 



Plants shrubby or suflfrutescent, 1 to 2.5 meters high ; leaves ovate, 2 to 4 

 cm. long, acuminate, rounded or subcordate at base, serrate, tomentulose be- 

 neath ; flowers sessile in dense clusters, these spicate-paniculate ; corolla white. 

 "Verbena months," " chichinguast6n " (El Salvador). 



5. Hyptis rhytidea Benth. PI. Hartw. 21. 1839. 



Sinaloa and Durango to Jalisco and Aguascalientes ; type from Aguascali- 

 entes. 



Plants shrubby or suffrutescent, 1.5 to 2.5 meters high ; leaves oblong or 

 lance-oblong, 4 to 13 cm. long, acute or obtuse, serrate, coriaceous, scabrous 

 above, tomentose or glabrate beneath ; inflorescence spicate-paniculate. " Sal- 

 via prieta " (Sinaloa). 



Used in Sinaloa as a remedy for fevers. 



6. Hyptis seemanni A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 21: 407. 1886. 



Hyptis seemanni stenophylla Robinson, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 31: 267. 

 1904. 



Chihuahua, Sonora, and Sinaloa. 



Shrub ; leaves linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 4 to 7 cm. long, at- 

 tenuate, crenate or serrate, tomentose beneath ; flower heads small, sessile, 

 spicate-paniculate ; calyx densely villous in the throat and outside. " Salvia " 

 (Sinaloa). 



7. Hyptis tephrodes A. Gray, Proc. Amei*. Acad. 5: 164. 1861. 

 Baja California ; type from Cape San Lucas. 



Shrub, 1.5 to 2.5 meters high; leaves lanceolate or lance-oblong, 3 to 7 cm. 

 long, acute, crenate or serrate; flower clusters spicate-paniculate, the panicles 

 nearly naked ; calyx densely white-lanate. 



Doubtfully distinct from H. albida. 



8. Hyptis albida H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 319. 1817. 



Sonora and Chihuahua to San Luis PotosI, Guanajuato, and Guerrero; type 

 from Lake Cuitzeo, Guanajuato. 



Shrub, 1.5 to 4.5 meters high, stellate-tomentose throughout ; leaves 2 to 6 

 cm. long, crenate-serrate, prominently reticulate-veined; flower clusters spi- 

 cate-paniculate, the panicles leafy or naked; calyx densely white-lanate; co- 

 rolla blue. "Salvia" (Sinaloa, Jalisco, Aguascalientes); " oregano " (Sina- 

 loa) ; "salvia real" (Guerrero). 



The leaves are sometimes used for flavoring food. In Sinaloa they are 

 employed as a remedy for ear-ache, and in Guerrero a decoction of the plant 

 is used in fomentations to relieve rheumatic pains. 



9. Hyptis tomentosa Poit. Ann. Mus. Paris 7: 469. 1806. 

 Puebla and Guerrero to Chiapas. 



Shrub, 1.5 to 3 meters high, stellate-tomentose; leaves oblong to ovate or 

 oval, 1 to 7 cm. long, obtuse, crenate; flower clusters chiefly axillary, the 

 flowers long-pedicellate; calyx stellate-tomentose; corolla about 12 mm. long, 

 violet 



10. Hyptis laniflora Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 42. pi. 20. 1844. 

 Baja California ; type from Cape San Lucas. 



Shrub, 1.5 to 2.5 meters high; leaves 1 to 4.5 cm. long, coarsely dentate, 

 coriaceous; flower clusters on long, slender, usually glabrous, purplish pe- 

 duncles ; calyx densely white-lanate. " Salvia." 



A decoction of the plant is administered as a remedy for fevers. 



