FERNALD, — MEXICAN SALVIAS. 491 
ful status are here noted, although they are so incompletely character- 
ized as to make their identification without access to the types quite 
impossible. In such cases the traditional conception of the plant has 
been maintained as far as possible, though it is highly probable that 
future study of these little-known types will identify some of them with 
better known species. 
The descriptions of two species recently published from old manu- 
scripts contain so little of specific significance that it is impossible to 
say upon what plants they were based. ‘These are S. azurea and S. 
dichroma, La Llave in La Naturaleza, vii (1885) Apend. 82. 
A European species, S. Sclarea, L., is often cultivated in central 
Mexico and is sometimes distributed in exsiccatae as if an indigenous 
plant (for example, see Schaffner’s no. 49 from the mountains of San 
Luis Potosi). 
In the study of species of § Membranaceae Mr. N. E. Brown of the 
Royal Gardens at Kew has rendered very valuable service by comparing 
specimens submitted to him with the types of Bentham’s species. 
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SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 
(As far as possible the sectional numbers and descriptions have been 
maintained as given in the Prodromus.) 
Section VI. CALOSPHACE, Benth. Calyx ovate, tubulose or 
campanulate, the upper lip entire or shortly tridentate, the teeth approxi- 
mate, and the middle one longest. Corolla-tube exserted or included, 
hot annulate within, but occasionally furnished with 2 teeth near the 
base. Upper lip (galea) straight or concave, entire or often short- 
emarginate; the lower with spreading lobes. Anterior portion of the 
connective deflexed, linear, longitudinally connate or approximate, oc- 
casionally a little dilated, and rarely bearing an empty adnate anther-cell. 
§ 1. MicrantHas, Benth. Bracts small, mostly deciduous. Corolla 
blue or white, short, 8 mm. or less (in one species nearly 1 cm.) in 
length, very slightly or rarely almost twice exceeding the calyx; the 
tube generally ventricose; the galea straight. 
* Corolla very small, 3 to 5 mm. long: calyx glandular. 
«+ Calyx-lobes blunt. 
1. S. occmentaxis, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Oce. i. 43; Benth, I.c. 296; 
Gray, Syn. FI. ii. pt. 1, 370; Hemsl. I. c. 562; Briq. l.c. 277. S. pro- 
cumbens, Ruiz & Pay, Fl. Per. & Chil. i. 27, t. 89, fig.a _ S. radtcans, 
Poir. Dict. vi. 621. Verbena minima chamaedryos folio, Sloane, Jam. i. 
