FERNALD. — MEXICAN AND NICARAGUAN DICOTYLEDONS, 55 
bracts ovate, aristate, 3 mm. long, caducous: calyx cylindric, bluish, 
glandular-puberulent, the tube five times exceeding the ovate acuminate 
lobes, in anthesis 6 mm. long: corolla 1.5 cm. long, the pale tube long- 
exserted ; the deep-blue lip and the pilose galea subequal: style pilose. 
— Puesua, limestone hills near Tehuacan, alt. 1720 m., Aug. 23, 
1901 (C. G@. Pringle, no. 8593). Related to S. alamosana, Rose (no. 108 
of the writer’s Synopsis), but differing in its less branching habit, closer 
finer pubescence, slender petioles, more deltoid leaves and fewer flowers. 
Salvia (Fulgentes) ancistrocarpha. Coarse erect herb; the stems 
closely glandular-puberulent above, and hispidulous especially upon the 
angles with short whitish flat trichomes: leaves ovate, cordate with 
closed sinus or subtruncate, acutish, closely crenate, scabrellous above, 
hispidulous on the nerves beneath, the primary ones 8 to 10 em. long, 
5 to 6 cm. broad at base: racemes elongate, the primary one becoming 
4 dm. long: verticels 4—9-flowered, the lowest 2 or 3 cm. apart: bracts 
round-ovate, scarcely veiny, coarsely ciliate, tipped by a hook-like 
slender awn 4 or 5 mm. long, caducous: pedicels 2 or 3, becoming 6 mm. 
long: calyx tubular-campanulate, in anthesis 13 to 15 mm. long, in 
fruit pulverulent, hirtellus on the veins, the teeth acuminate: corolla 
pure red, 3 to 3.5 cm. long, the slightly pilose galea shorter than the 
broad lower lip: style glabrous. —Mexico, Tultenango Canyon, Oct. 
7, 1902 (C. G. Pringle, no. 8674). A gorgeous plant closely related to 
and somewhat suggesting S. adenophora, Fernald (no. 152 of the 
writer's Synopsis). Differing in its herbaceous stem, its harsh pubes- 
cence, its longer acuminate-toothed calyx, its larger nearly glabrous 
more vivid corolla, and in the smoother bracts with their peculiar 
claw- or hook-like appendages. 
Salvia (Tubiflorae) Townsendii. Stems about | m. high, minutely 
pruinose-puberulent : leaves narrowly ovate or ovate-lanceolate, elongate- 
acuminate, about 1 dm. long, 2.5 to 3 cm. broad, dark green and 
glabrate above, pale and minutely pilose beneath, crenate, on puberulent 
petioles 1 to 2 cm. long: racemes 1 to 2.5 dm. long, closely flowered ; 
the verticels 12-20-flowered, the lowest becoming 2 cm. apart, the 
upper crowded : pedicels 3 to 7 mm. long, ascending: calyx in anthesis 
3 to 3.5 mm. long, strongly glandular-dotted, and minutely hispidulous 
on the nerves, the lobes very short and broad: corolla villous, deep 
purple-violet, 2.5 em. long, the galea exceeding the drooping lip: 
stamens and style exserted, glabrous. — CHIHUAHUA, near Seven Star 
Mine, Sept. 16, 1899 (C. H. 7. Townsend § C. M. Barber, no. 426). 
Nearly related to S. michoacana, Fernald (no. 187 of the writer's Synop- 
