110 New Species of South American Plants 



"Erect, to four or five feet, the flowers deep blue. Local 

 in clearings or open forest, 8oo to 2,500 feet. September. 

 Collected at Jiracasaca, 2,500 feet, December 2." (Herbert 

 H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1370.) 



Apparently the same as Fendler's No. 876. 



Salvia viridifolia. 



Leaves sparsely strigose and somewhat harsh, the inflores- 

 cence tomentiUate and somewhat ferruginous. Branches sub- 

 erect, very leafy. Petioles i cm. long, slender. Blades 7 to 

 10 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. broad, regularly lanceolate, with acumi- 

 nate base and longer acuminate and acute summit, finely serrate 

 with erect teeth, thickish, deep-green, the venation very slightly 

 prominent on both sides, the stoutish secondaries five on a side, 

 erect and more or less falcate near the midrib, connected by 

 numerous fine tertiaries. Spikes elongated and narrow, densely 

 flow2red, the verticels many flowered, their bracts nearly i cm. 

 long, ovate, with long-attenuate summits, the pedicels very 

 short. Flowering calyx 7 mm. long, sharply ten-ribbed, the 

 tube cylindrical, twice the length of the limb. Upper lip en- 

 tire, a little longer than the lower, the summit very broad, 

 mucronate, the lower deeply two-lobed, the lobes triangular 

 and acuminate. Corolla 14 mm. long, puberulent below, the 

 upper lip tomentose, erect, strongly concave, minutely two- 

 toothed, the lower three lobed, its middle lobe spatulate and 

 thickened, the lateral obliquely triangular. Stamens inserted 

 in the top of the throat, the filament a little shorter than the 

 branches of the connective. Lower branch much thickened, 

 its anther-cell very small and rudimentary. Upper branch 

 inserted near the top of the anther-cell and twice its length. 

 Lower branch of style very short and thick, sharply recurved, 

 the upper elongated and wholly exserted, finely attenuate. 



"A shrub to five feet, with white flowers. In an open place 

 near streams, Las Nubes, 4,500 feet, December 15.") Herbert 

 H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1381). 



Salvia libanensis. 



Softly tomentose. Stems stoutish, but weak, brown-hairy, 

 the tops of the hairs white and glistening. Petioles (only the 

 upper seen) 2.5 to 7 cm. long. Blades 7 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 8 

 cm. wide, ovate with rounded, truncate or slightly cordate base 

 and abruptly acuminate and very acute summit, serrate with 

 short teeth and acute sinuses, thin, deep-green, but brownish 

 with the _ indumentum, the slender venation not prominent, 

 the principal secondaries about 6 on each side, approximate 

 below, distant above, strongly falcate-ascending, connected by 

 numerous obscure crooked tertiaries. Racemes at first dense, 



