FERNALD. — MEXICAN SALVIAS, 023 
Var. pinguifolia. Leaves large, as in the last, scarcely rugose, very 
pale beneath with a close very minute indumentum, not tomentulose, 
greasy to the touch: racemes all many-flowered.— New Mexico, 
1851-52 (0. Wright, no. 1524): Arizona, San Francisco Mts., back 
of Clifton, Sept. 3, 1880 ( #. L. Greene, no. 300). 
= Leaves very pale on both surfaces, thick, pied rugose, greasy to the 
touch, irregularly crena 
101. S. prarycnerta, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 292, & Syn. Fl. 
l.c.— Lower Carirornia, Carmen Island, 1870, Nov. 1890 (£dw. 
Palmer, nos. 7, 878). 
* * Calyx densely woolly: verticels in short spiciform racemes: lip of corolla 
distinctly exceeding the galea (otherwise approaching the Erianthae). 
102. S. confinis, Branches canescent with fine stellate pubescence, 
leafy to the inflorescence : leaves oblong, blunt or acutish, rounded-trun- 
cate or subcuneate at base, very short-petioled, thick and rugulose 
especially along the closely crenulate margin, closely canescent on both 
surfaces, or ferrugineous-tinged beneath, 1.5 to 4.5 em. long, 0.5 to 2 cm. 
wide: spiciform racemes simple or slightly paniculate, 1 to 4 cm. long, 
lowest verticels slightly remote: bracts large, broad-ovate, acuminate, 
somewhat persistent, 0.5 to 1 em. long, stellate-tomentose: calyx dark 
blue, mostly hidden by dense white-lanate pubescence: corolla blue, 
scarcely 1 em. long. — S. spicata, Gray, l. c. 461, not R. & S.— Southern 
Arizona and adjacent Mexico. Arizona, mountain pass near Fort 
Huachuca, 1882 (Lemmon, no. 2861): Sonora, Fronteras, alt. 1,400 
m., Sept. 25, 1890 (0. V. Hartman, no. 43). - 
F. Scorodoniae, Benth. Shrubs with ovate (in S. thyrsiflora ovate- 
lanceolate) rugose leaves generally cordate, rarely cuneate, at base. 
* Leaves white-tomentose beneath with simple hairs. 
+ Leaves very shy ce ox 280 above, mostly oon hota A aca r in variety of the 
first species) with obtuse or blunt 
ad Pedicels Mi short, at most 8 mm. long: racemes rather dense, often branch- 
ing; calyx somewhat sence neneenen e, in anthesis 4 to 5 mm. long, ; ih 
short Saree ¢ ehties 
= Pubescence of calyx glandular-villous. 
103. S. scoroponrarFouta, Poir. Leaves ovate, subcordate. — 
Suppl. v. 46: Benth. lc. 316; Hemsl. le. 565; Brig. Le S. 
melissodora, Lag. Gen. & Spec. Mae 2. S. hirta, Schranck, Syll. Pl. 
Soc. Ratisb. ii. 60? according to Benth. S. scorodonia, Benth. Lab. 
264.— Central and southern Mexico. San Luis Porost, alt. 1,850 
