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becoming loose and elongated, the whorls about 5-flowered, the 

 pedicels at length nearly as long as the calyx, all densely brown- 

 hairy. Flowering calyx scarlet, or greenish, nearly 2.5 cm. 

 long, and 2 cm. broad, campanulate with broad base, very 

 slightly 2-lipped, with triangular erect teeth, terminating in 

 rigid acute points about 2 mm. long. Corolla 6 to 8 cm. long, 

 very loosely enclosed in the calyx, narrowly infundibular, the 

 lips about a third of the length. Tube somewhat ventricose, 

 straight. Upper lip concave, enclosing the upper anther-cells, 

 which are 4 mm. long, attached slightly above the base. Fila- 

 ments short and thick. Both branches of the connective 

 dilated and broader than the theca, with a strong brown middle 

 line, the upper 12 mm. long, the lower 8 or 9 mm. long and 

 completely connate except for the notched end. Style-branches 

 exserted, the lower narrowly subulate, the upper long- attenuate 

 and sigmoid curved. Nutlet 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, 

 ovoid, obtuse, slightly curved, deeply 3-sulcate. 



A shrub 6 or 8 feet high, the flowers varying from vivid 

 scarlet to dull red, the calyx the same or greenish. Common 

 locally in damp mountain foiest, usually in boggy ground. 

 Sierra del Libano, about 6000 feet. Collected in March." 

 (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1380.) 



Salvia tnultispicata. 



Finely and harshly strigose. Stems stoutish but weak, 

 strongly sulcate, much branched above. Petioles 5 to 10 mm. 

 long, slender, the blades 12 to 25 mm. long, 8 to 16 mm. wide, 

 ovate, with the rounded base abruptly produced into the petiole 

 and with acute summit, irregularly and sparsely dentate, the teeth 

 sub-obsolete the sinuses acute ; thin, the venation inconspicuous 

 the secondaries, 3 to 5 on a side. Spikes crowded at the summit, 

 branched at the base, slender, the whorls distant, except near 

 the ends, densely many-flowered, subtended by broadly ovate 

 venose bracts, the pedicels extremely short, slender. Flower- 

 ing calyx 4 mm. long, densely pilose, lo-nerved, campanulate, 

 divided a third of the way, the lips equal, the lower entire, 

 twice as wide as the two lobes of the upper, all acute. Corolla 

 twice the length of the calyx, narrowly infundibular, the upper 

 lip entire, half as long as the lower, which has two obscure 

 lobes at the base. Filament filiform, the lower branch of the 

 connective short, bearing a small empty theca, the upper twice 

 as long, fertile. 



"Near Jiracasaca, in a damp clearing in a ravine, 2,500 

 feet." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1371.) 



Salvia secundiflora. 



Younger portions and lower leaf-surfaces sparsely and 

 minutely strigose, or the latter glabrous. Stems slender, 



