Robinson and Greenman— Mexican Plants, 163 
SALVIA vitiroiia Benth. Excellent specimens, agreeing in all 
points with the original description, show the root-character not 
litherto described. From a knotted root-stock, fleshy fusiform 
fibres are given off which in the material at hand are a third o 
an inch in diameter.—Collected by C. G. Pringle, on the Sierra 
de San Felipe, Oaxaca, altitude 7,500 feet, 26 May, 1894 (No. 
ee 8 to 15 lines long, densely pubescent: flowers in pairs 
ubdtended by small ovate acuminate bracts and forming several 
One ginate lobe.—Collected i C. Smith, Rancho de Calderon, 
“aca, altitude 6,500 feet, 13 August, 1894 (No. 173) 
Tous RANTHUS INORNUS. Stems slender, terete or nearly 80, glab- 
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