FERNALD. — MEXICAN SALVIAS, 495 
122): Vera Cruz, Orizaba (Botteri, nos. 533, 869), Aug. 13, 1891 
(Seaton, no. 304); Cordoba (Asa Gray): Oaxaca, Monte Alban, alt. 
1,900 m., Oct. 11, 1895 (LZ. C. Smith, no. 949): GuaTEemALa, Santiago, 
Dept. Dec tadertiens alt. 2,000 m., 1891 (Rosalia Gomez in exsicc. J. D. 
Smith, no. 816) ; Castillas, Derk Santa Rosa, alt. 1,230 m., Sept., 
1892 (Heyde & Lux in exsice. J. D. Smith, no. 4055) : Coors Rica, 
Cartago, alt. 1,300 m., Nov., 1888 (Juan J. Cooper in exsice. J. D. Smith, 
no. 9900); San José, July, 1892, and San Francisco de Guadalupe, 
Dec., 1893 (Ad. Tonduz, nos. 701, 8456). See note under S. Chia. S. 
flexuosa, Presl in Benth. Lab. 248, is perhaps only a glabrate form of 
this species, apparently represented by Botteri’s no. 395 from Orizaba. 
Var. cinerascens. Whole plant cinereous with fine puberulence. — 
hee barranca near Guadalajara, Oct. 3, 1891 (C. G. Pringle, no. 
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‘i ++ ++ Leaves firm, small, 1 to 2.5m. long: verticels 2-4-flowered. 
= Herbaceous, erect: leaves broad-ovate, cordate, minutely pubescent: lower 
verticels in axils of upper foliar leaves. 
12. S. wumints, Benth. Lab. 247, & in DC. 1. c. 298; Hemsl. 1. c. 
598 ; hss 1. c. — Described from “ Mexico.” Not seen, 
oe sely branching from woody base: leaves narrowly rhombic- ihe hg 
thiongs iva cuneate, densely pilose-setulose beneath : racemes short-pedun 
13. S. pusilla, Stems 1 to 2.5 dm. long, slender and wiry, ‘eee 
lent and hoary with fine spreading setulose hairs; more or less diffusely 
branched: leaves blunt or acutish, irregularly more or less serrate, 
green above, pale beneath, long-setulose on both faces or glabrate above, 
on short slender petioles: peduncles 1.5 to 4 cm. long: racemes | to 8 
em. long; the verticels all remote, the lowest becoming 2 to 2.5 ¢ 
apart: bracts ovate, 3 to 4 mm. long, firm and essentially persatent: 
pedicels very short: calyx white-setulose, in anthesis 2to 3 mm., in 
fruit 5 mm. long; the tube once and a half longer than the acuminate 
lobes: corolla blue, 7 mm. long; the tube shteceurtnd : the pilose 
galea twice exceeded by the lip: style densely bearded. — OAXACA, 
Vicinity of Yalalag, alt. 1,230 to 2,400 m., July, 1894 (2. W. Nelson, 
no. 958); Sierra de San Felipe, alt. 2,160 m., Sept. 23, 1895 (C. 
Conzatti, in exsicc. L, C. Smith, no. 708). 
* * * Corolla 9 to 10 mm. long. 
+ Leaves cuneate or rounded-cuneate at base: calyx subglabrous. 
++ Leaves oblong-lanceolate. 
14. S. ovropnytra, Briq. Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Geneve, ii 
126. — Described from Costa Rica. Not seen. 
