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long, the blades 4—6 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. broad, lanceolate, the 
base broadest, rounded or sub-truncate to very abruptly cuneate, 
apex somewhat abrupt, but acutish, from coarsely to finely crenate- 
serrate, papillose or strigose above, puberulent beneath, green, 
membranaceous, the veins slender and inconspicuous (except as 
above stated), the principal 5 or 6 pairs; peduncles solitary, 
terminal, unbranched, 3-4 cm. long; verticils few and rather dis- 
tant, about 6-8-flowered; pedicels very short, spreading ` flowering 
calyx 6-7 mm. long, about half as broad, in fruit slightly enlarged, 
sharply nerved, the nerves bluish; corolla apparently light blue or 
whitish, exceeding the calyx by about 1 cm., widely ringent, the 
lower lip about one-half longer than the upper; my specimens too 
badly damaged to permit of dissection. 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (980). Also collected by Bridges. 
SALVIA RusBvyi Britton, sp. n. 
Weak and slender, minutely puberulent above, widely branch- 
ing, the branches brownish; petioles 2-4 cm. long very slender, 
mostly deflexed, the under side ribbed; blades 8-11 cm. long, 4-6 
The type is Rusby's No. 2414, from which this description is 
en. 
Yungas, 1890 (422). Differs from the type in its rounded 
Ovate more acuminate smaller leaves and smaller flowers, but 
clearly of this species. 
Salvia sp. ! 
Vic. La Paz, 10,000 ft., 1889 (37 in part, with small thick 
 Tigid leaves and small flowers) — Rusby's 2439. 
