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long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, blunt at tip, rounded or subcuneate at base, 
green very rugose and glabrate above, very white beneath, irregularly 
crenate-dentate ; petioles 1.25 cm. or less in length: racemes 1 dm. or 
less long; verticels many-flowered, rather crowded, the lowest 1 to 1.5 
cm. apart; all the parts red-punctate; rhachis pruinose-pubescent: bracts 
ovate-acuminate, bluish, finely stellate-pubescent: calyx ovate-campanu- 
late, closely pruinose-pubescent, bluish-tinged, in anthesis 4 to 5 mm. 
long; the tube twice or thrice exceeding the deltoid blunt lobes: corolla 
1.2 cm. long, pruinose-stellate ; the tube one half longer than the calyx; 
the galea about equalling the lip: style bearded. — Jasco, road between 
Mesquitec and Monte Escobedo, Aug. 26, 1897 (J. WV. Rose, no. 2601). 
b. Leaves oblong-ovate, bluntly crenate: calyx-teeth subulate. 
114. §. Goldmanii. Stem stout, 6 or 7 dm. high, herbaceous, or 
fruticose at base, puberulent, with numerous ascending branches above: 
leaves dull-green, slightly rugose above, cinereous and red-punctate be- 
neath, 1 dm. or less long, bluntish at tip, rounded-cuneate to petioles 
2 cm. or less in length: racemes 0,5 to 1.5 dm. long; verticels 6-12- 
flowered, the lower 2 cm. apart, the upper approximate ; rhachis lanate : 
bracts lance-ovate, caducous: calyx in anthesis 5 to 6 mm. long, lanate 
at base, the deltoid subulate-tipped lobes one half as long as the tube: 
corolla red-punctate, 1.5 em. long; the tube somewhat exserted, glabrous 
below; the lips stellate-pilose without, the lower exceeding the galea: 
style barely exserted, bearded. — Northwestern Mexico. CuHrHuanva, 
near Batopilas, alt. 1690 to 2000 m., Oct. 4, 5, 1898 (HZ. A. Goldman, 
no. 214), 
~ + Calyx blue, invested in long white wool: leaves becoming glabrate, conspic- 
uously red-punctate beneath. 
115. S. ruBropunctata, Robinson & Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 
Xxx. 121.— Sonora, in the cafion, Huehuerachi, Dec. 12, 1890 (7. £. 
Lloyd, no. 451). 
* * * Leaves glabrous, or the youngest slightly puberulent on the nerves 
beneath. 
116. S.Nelsonii. Shrub with smooth reddish-brown bark, the 
younger branchlets slightly puberulent: leaves ovate, blunt or acutish at 
tip, rounded at base, 1.5 to 5 cm. long, 1 to 3 cm, broad, dull green and 
obscurely rugose above, paler beneath, crenate-serrate: petioles slender, 
puberulent, 1 cm. or less in length : inflorescence more or less paniculate ; 
the racemes 1 dm. or Jess long, the upper terminating leafless branches 5 
Verticels 6-12-flowered, becoming a little remote, the lowest 1 to 2 cm. 
