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Satvia Lirrz Vis. Specimens have just been received which 
agree in all essential characters with Bentham’s description of 
the above species in DC. Prodr., but the plant differs, however, 
in being herbaceous, as noted by the collector, and also in having 
a sparingly pubescent style. Without access to the type it is 
impossible to say, with absolute certainty, whether or not this 
plant is the same.—Collected by C. G. Pringle, on Sierra de 
Clavellinas, Oaxaca, altitude 9,000 feet, 18 October, 1894 (No. 
4991); also by KE. W. Nelson 18 miles southwest of the City of 
Oaxaca, altitude 7,500 to 9,500 feet, 10-20 September, 1894 (No. 
1342). 
SALVIA viriroLiA Benth. Excellent specimens, agreeing in all 
points with the original description, show the root-character not 
hitherto described. From a knotted root-stock, fleshy fusiform 
fibres are given off which in the material at hand are a third of 
an inch in diameter.—Collected by C. G. Pringle, on the Sierra 
de San Felipe, Oaxaca, altitude 7,500 feet, 26 May, 1894 (No. 
4659); also by E. W. Nelson, in the same locality, 1 September, 
1894 (No. 1169); and by L. C. Smith, San Juan del Estado, alti- 
tude 7,000 feet, 4 June, 1894 (No. 169). Here also should be 
placed Mr. Seaton’s No. 376 from Maltrata. 
SALVIA THYRSIFLORA Benth. A shrubby plant with a beauti- 
fully thyrsoid inflorescence has been collected by Mr. Pringle on 
mountains near Patzcuaro, 21 December, 1891 (No. 4097), which 
corresponds in all particulars to Bentham’s description of this 
species except in having somewhat larger acute leaves (2 inches 
long) and a calyx puberulent but not glandular-pubescent. 
SCUTELLARIA AUREA. Stem branched, densely grayish pubes- 
cent: leaves broadly ovate, shortly and acutely acuminate, 
coarsely crenate-dentate, thin, green and puberulent, much paler 
and pubescent especially upon the veins beneath, rounded or sub- 
cordate at the base, 3 to 4 inches long, 2 to 22 inches broad ; 
petioles 8 to 15 lines long, densely pubescent: flowers in pairs 
subtended by small ovate acuminate bracts and forming several 
elongated simple racemes; pedicels a line long: calyx green, 
puberulent, ciliate upon the margin, in anthesis 2 to 23 lines long: 
corolla an inch in length, puberulent, orange-colored, paler ven- 
trally; the slender proper tube densely and retrorsely pubescent 
within, throat more or less ventricose ; lateral lobes united with 
the dorsal pair to form the upper lip; the lower lip of a single 
emarginate lobe.—Collected by L. C. Smith, Rancho de Calderon, 
Oaxaca, altitude 6,500 feet, 13 August, 1894 (No. 173). 
LoraNTHUS INORNUsS. Stems slender, terete or nearly so, glab- 
rous, scoparious, flexuous, branched: branches spreading, not en- 
larged at the nodes, essentially terete : leaves alternate, mostly 
reduced and subulate, the larger 8 lines long, 14 lines broad, 
oblanceolate, acutish, cuneate at base, nerveless: flowers axillary, 
sessile, usually in pairs or solitary, 14 lines long: calyx cupulate, 
entire: divisions of the corolla 4, oblong, acutish, caducous and 
early disclosing the persistent style: fruit ovoid, 14 lines long, 
