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b. Inflorescences paniculate; all the verticels remote: bracts entire. 
20. S. cladodes. Stems glabrate below, sordid-pilose above: leaves 
oblong to narrow-ovate, 1 dm. or less long, 5 em. or less wide, long- 
acuminate at tip, cuneate at base, finely crenate-serrate, short-velutinous 
or glabrate on both surfaces; petioles 2 cm. or less long: panicle with 
slender ascending densely pilose branches 1 to 2 dm. long: bracts purp- 
lish, broad-ovate or suborbicular, acuminate, more or less pilose, ciliate : 
verticels 1 to 2.5 cm. apart, 3-9-flowered; pedicels 4 to 7 mm. long, 
spreading and nodding at tips: calyx purplish, in anthesis 8 to 9 mm. 
long, broadened upward; the tube glandular-pilose; the glabrate limb 
with ovate-acuminate lobes: corolla-tube imcluded; the lips one half 
longer than the calyx. — Northwestern Mexico. Without locality (See- 
mann): TEpic, near Compostela, alt. 1,540 to 1,850 m., Apr. 7-8, 1897 
(Z. W. Nelson, no. 4171). 
= = Branches canescent with appressed strongly recurved hairs: only the lowest 
vert folk remote, the spiciform racemes 1 to 6 cm. long: bracts entire or un- 
dulate, ciliate. 
21. S. saltuensis. Stems 1 to 1.5 m. high, bearing solitary ter- 
minal racemes or many inflorescences of 1 to 3 verticels on short leafy 
branchlets: leaves 6 cm. or less long, acute, finely crenate-serrate, dull 
green and finely pubescent above, canescent-tomentulose beneath, on 
slender petioles 1.5 cm. or less in length: bracts reniform, acuminate, 
brownish or slightly rosy tinged, minutely pubescent on the nerves, 1 to 
1.5 cm. long: calyx purple-tinged, appressed-hirsute, in anthesis 7 mm. 
long, with broad blunt or short-acuminate lobes: corolla 1.3 cm. long, 
blue, the pilose galea one half as long as the lip. — MorEtLos, in “sau 
of Sierra de Tepoxtlan, alt. 2,310 m., Feb. 8, 1899 (C. G. Pringle, no. 
8035) : JALIsco, between San Sebastian and the summit of Mt. Bufa 
. Mascota, alt. 1,380 to 2,300 m., March 20, 1897 (2. W. Nelson, no. 
103), 
== = Of close affinity to the preceding is 
22. S. supLeuRorpes, Pres! in Benth. Lab. 271, a glabrous plant 
With fascicled peduncles each bearing solitary many-flowered verticels. 
Not identified. 
* * Leaves broad- orale (narrow-ovate in S. nitida) or ee rounded 
e subcordate truncate or subcuneate base, 
+ Verticels remote (approximate in a form of S. hyptoides): leaves 5 cm. or less 
in length. 
++ Leaves glabrous or only minutely puberulent. 
= Leaves ’ovate-lanceolate, glossy. 
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