FERNALD. — MEXICAN SALVIAS. 519 
minutely puberulent above and on the nerves beneath, on puberulent 
petioles 0.2 to 1 cm. long: peduncles 7 to 10 em. long, pubescent above 
with long fine spreading hairs; verticels 4—8-flowered, all becoming 
remote, the lowest 1.5 to 2 cm. apart: bracts narrow-ovate, acuminate :. 
pedicels 2 to 3 mm. long: calyx in anthesis 5 to 6 mm. long, the tube 
twice exceeding the subulate-tipped lobes: corolla 1.3 to 1.5 em. long, 
the glabrous tube one half exceeding the calyx; galea puberulent, half 
as long as the dark blue lip. — Teprc, Santa Gertrudis, in the Sierra 
Madre, Aug. 8, 1897 (J. NV. Rose, no. 3407). 
D. Arilliflorae, Benth. Small much branched and depressed suffru- 
tescent plants: the flowers borne in the axils of foliar leaves: corolla- 
tube scarcely ventricose. 
* Leaves oblong-linear es or rhe nn 0.5 to 1.5 em. long, entire, canes- 
ntly rough-hispid 
89. S. axm aris, Moc. & Sess. in Benth. Lab. 270; Benth. in DC. 
lc. 313; Hemsl. Le. 553; Brig. l.e.—South central Mexico. With- 
out locality (Coulter, no. 1118): San Luis Porost, in the mountains, 
1876 (Schaffner, no. 648), alt. 1,850 to 2,500 m., 1878 (Parry & Palm- 
er, no. 698): GuanasuaTo, 1893 (A. Dugés, no. 228 A). 
* x Leaves cuneate-obovate, 5 to 7.5 mm. long, 3-toothed, appressed-setulose. 
90. S. cunerronia, Benth. Lab. 270, & in DC. l.c.; Hemsl., 1. c. 
555; Briq. 1.c.— Southern Mexico. Hmateo, bare hills above Pa- 
chuca, alt. 2,600 m., July 18, 1898 (0. G. Pringle, no. 6905). Orig- 
‘inally described from Oaxaca. 
£. Candicantes, Benth. Shrubs: leaves oblong or lanceolate, rarely 
cordate, or when ovate not cordate, beneath tomentose or densely fine 
canescent, rarely pale and glabrate. (Some species approaching the Scoro- 
doniae, others the Erianthae.) 
* Calyx canescent short-pubescent or tomentose, not i Ges woolly. 
+ Leaves entire or essentially so. (Reduced forms of S. chamaedryoides may be. 
looked for .) 
++ Leaves sessile or subsessile, narrow-oblong, strongly revolute. 
91. §. Coulteri, Branches ligneous, covered with gray-brown 
bark and numerous approximate leaf-scars: leaves densely cinereous- 
tomentulose with stellate hairs, strongly revolute, blunt at tip, truncate 
or subcordate at base, 1 to 1.5 em. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide: racemes 2 to 
3 cm. long; the rhachis pilose with long branching hairs ; verticels about 
6-flowered, slightly remote: calyx tubular-campanulate, glandular-pilose, 
