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remote, the lowest 3 to 4.cm. apart: pedicels puberulent, 3 mm. long: 
calyx minutely puberulent or glabrate ; the tube thrice longer than the 
lips ; upper lip broad-ovate, blunt or short-mucronate, lower with two 
short incurved subulate teeth : corolla 3 to 3.25 cm. long, slightly curved, 
short-pilose ; the tube twice longer than the calyx; the galea and lip sub- 
equal: style glabrous or very slightly bearded. — Curapas, in the forests, 
flowering in June (Ghiesbreght, no. 760). 
* * Leaves rounded or cordate at base. (S. curviflora may be looked for here.) 
+ Leaves rounded or rounded-truncate at base, not definitely cordate. 
++ Leaves lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 dm. long. 
182. S. perlonga. Shrub with pilose-hispid branches: leaves thick, 
with long-attenuate tips, crenulate-serrate, rugose and covered with short 
dense plush-like indumentum above, canescent-velutinous beneath, on 
canescent petioles 2 cm. or less long: racemes 1 to 2 dm. long ; verticels 
2-8-flowered, all remote ; pedicels and rhachis sordid glandular-pilose: 
calyx purplish, glandular, pilose-hispidulous, in anthesis 1.3 cm. long, the 
tube twice exceeding the blunt ovate entire lips: corolla vermilion, 3 ¢™ 
long, the slightly ventricose tube twice exceeding the calyx; the minutely 
pilose lips subequal: style slightly bearded. — Guerrero, northeast 
slope of Sierra Madre, near Chilpancingo, alt. 2,150 to 2,620 m., Dec. 24, 
1894 (E. W. Nelson, no. 2186). Further material may show this © 
belong with the Fulgentes. 
. ++» ++ Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, shorter. 
= Corolla purple rose-purple or flesh-colored. 
a. Leaves glabrous or only minutely puberulent beneath, not pilose (except slightly 
so in var. of S. purpurea). 
1. Branches canescent-velutinous: verticels 2-flowered. 
183. S. e@RractirrLora, Mart. & Gal. lc. 75; Benth. lc. 342; 
Hemsl. ].c. 557. — Described from Zacuapan. Not seen. 
2. Branches slightly pilose, puberulent or glabrous: verticels several-many 
flowered. 
O A pair of glands generally present at the base of the petiole: corolla slender; 
ng. 
puberulent, 2 to 2.75 cm. lo 
184. S. purpurea, Cav. Minutely puberulent or glabrous. — Ie. ¥- 
52, t. 166; Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. iii. 2, t. 253; Benth. l.c. 341; He 
lc. 564; Brig. lc. S. affints, Cham. & Schl. Linnaea, v. 99 ; Benth. 
l.c.; Hemsl. l. ¢. 552; Briq. 1.c.— Southern Mexico and Central Amer 
ica. JaLtsco, Bolafios (Hartweg, no. 161): Morexos, Cuernavaca 
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