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becoming sessile, deltoid-ovate to oblong, cordate at base, coarsely 
crenate, 3 to 7 cm. long: verticels 3—6-flowered, remote, only the lower 
conspicuously leafy-bracteate: pedicels very short: calyx minutely puber- 
ulent, in anthesis’ 6 mm. long, cleft half. way to the base into lance-subul- 
ate teeth: corolla: apparently pale, 1.1 to 1.3° cm. long; the tube once 
and a half as long as the calyx; the 3-lobed lower lip twice as long as 
the entire short pubescent galea. Oaxaca, Hacienda de Caciques, Dis- 
trict of Cuicatlan; Aug. 4, 1895, alt. 2,150-m. (ZL. 0. Smith, no. 612). 
Apparently related to’ S. Drummondii, Benth. 
S. (Calostachys) oaxacana, Stems slender, 2.5 to 6 dm. high, 
densely retrorse-hispid below, sparingly so or only glandular-puberulent 
above: leaves deltoid-ovate: to deltoid-lanceolate, coarsely crenate, 
cordate or truncate at: base, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long, above somewhat stri- 
gose-pubescent, beneath more or less pubescent, often white with 
appressed longitudinally spreading stiffish hairs; petioles slender, the 
lower equalling the blades, the upper shorter: verticels: 4—6-flowered, 
_rather remote, only the lowest conspicuously bracteate: pedicels about 
equalling the calyx: calyx green, glandular-puberulent,. in anthesis 
5 mm. long, in fruit. becoming as broad as long, with 5 deltoid-subulate 
teeth : corolla scarlet, 2 to 2.5.cm. long, minutely puberulent or glabrate 
without; the 3-lobed lower lip slightly exceeding the entire or emargt 
nate galea. Oaxaca, near Reyes, alt. 2,060 to 3,080 m., Oct. 20, 
1894 (£..W. Nelson, no? 1795); Sierra de San Felipe, alt. 2,150 m.) 
Sept. 23, 1895 ((C. Conzatti, in exsice, L. C. Smith, no. 709) ; mountains 
of San Juan del Estado, alt: 2,300 m., Oct. 21,1895 (L. C. Smith, 
rio. 924) ; Cuicatlan; alt: 1,675 m., Dec. 9; 1895 (V. Gonzdlez, no. 47). 
Closely related to’ S. coceinea, Jacq., with which it has formerly bee™ 
confused, but from which it is distinguished by its very slender habit, 
smaller calyx and different pubescence. 
Calamintha oaxacana. Shrub with smooth brown bark, and very 
slender minutely puberulent or’glabrate branchlets: leaves thin, elliptic- 
ovate, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, finely and sharply serrate, acute at tip, Dat 
rowed orrounded at base; petioles filiform, about equalling the lee 
blades: flowers’ solitary, axillary, on’ slender 2-bracteate pedicels oe 
8mm. long: calyx tubular, 13-costate, in anthesis 6 to’7 mm- long 
the tube twice exceeding the lance-subulate’ lobes; the upper lip ee 
3 upturned lobes, the’ two lobes of the lower straighter: corolla red; 
3 to 3.25 cm. long, short-pubescent without.— Oaxaca, El Lene 
Etla, alt. 1,200 m., Nov. 1898 (V. Gonzdlez & C. Conzatti, no. 901) ; 
Nearest related to”C. coccinea’ of’ the southern United States. Habit 
