LABIATZ. LXXXV. Sineritis. 
which is naked or annulate inside, and a bilabiate limb; upper 
lip erect, flattish, entire, or emarginately bifid ; lower lip spread- 
ing, trifid, the middle lobe the broadest, and usually emarginate. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, inclosed; the upper 2 very short, 
bearing 2-celled anthers: the cells divaricate; the 2 lower ones 
longer, bearing dimidiate or difformed empty anthers, rarely 
conforming to the superior anthers. Style inclosed, bifid at 
top ; upper lobe terete, truncate, stigmatiferous at top: lower 
lobe dilated, clasping the superior one at the base, stigmatiferous 
on the top and edges. Achenia dry, obtuse at apex, not trun- 
cate.— Herbs, shrubs, and under-shrubs. Whorls 6, or many- 
flowered, axillary, racemose or spicate. Floral leaves sometimes 
almost similar to the cauline leaves : upper ones minute, some- 
times bractea-formed, dilated, and clasping the flowers, with 
quite entire or spiny-toothed margins. Corollas small, usually 
yellowish. 
Secr. I. MannusriA'srRUM (from Marrubium, horehound ; and 
astrum, an affixed signification, like; plants with tbe habit of 
Marrübium.) Moench, meth. 391. Benth. lab. p. 573. Shrubs 
clothed with soft wool, generally white. Floral leaves green, 
quite entire or crenated, nearly similar to the lower cauline ones, 
but much smaller; uppermost ones minute. 
1 S. Massonia‘na (Benth. lab. p. 573.) clothed with white 
dense adpressed wool; leaves oblong, subcordate at the base, 
thick, clothed with white wool on both surfaces or only beneath ; 
racemes panicled; whorls few-flowered. h. G. Native of 
Madeira, Masson. Allied to S. Crética, but the leaves are nar- 
rower and scarcely crenated, and the upper surfaces of the leaves 
less woolly. Whorls 4-I0-flowered, interruptedly racemose. 
Corollas yellow. ? : 
Masson’s Ironwort. Shrub, 
2 S. ca’npicans (Ait. hort. kew. 2. p. 289.) clothed with ad- 
pressed dense white wool; leaves-ovate, crenated, a little trun- 
cate at the base, cordate, thick, clothed with adpressed wool on 
both surfaces, white beneath; racemes simple; whorls few- 
flowered. h.G. Native of Teneriffe. S. Crética, Lin. spec. 
p. 801.—Comm. hort. 2. p. 197. t. 99. Habit of S. Canarién- 
sis, but the wool is white. Leaves 1-2 inches long. Whorls 
usually 10-flowered ; lower ones distant. Corolla yellow, scarcely 
exceeding the calyx, pale yellow, or dirty white. 
Whitened Ylronwort. Fl. April, July. Cit. 1714. Shrub 2 
to 3 feet. ? j 
3 S. wacRosrA'cuvos (Poir. suppl. 2. p. 381.) clothed with 
dense white adpressed wool; leaves ovate, subcordate at the 
base, green above, and very white beneath ; whorls many-flow- 
ered, imbricated into a thick very dense spike. h.G. Native 
of the Canary Islands, Poiret, Masson. Corollas exceeding the 
calyx a little. Upper surfaces of leaves nearly glabrous. 
Long-spiked Yronwort. Shrub. hee 
4 S. Canante’nsts (Lin. spec. p. 573.) clothed with villous 
wool; leaves ovate, crenated, cordate at the base, thick, wrin- 
kled, veiny beneath, and clothed with velvety wool on both sur- 
faces; racemes simple ; whorls many-flowered, distinct. h.G. 
Native of the Canary Islands. Jacq. hort. vind. 3. p. 18. t. 30. 
Marrubiástrum tomentdsum, Moench, meth. p. $91.—Pluk. 
phyt. t. 322. f. 4. Plant clothed with rather floccose yellowish 
white dense wool. Leaves 2-4 inches long.  Whorls dense, 20- 
30-flowered. Corolla yellowish, scarcely exceeding the calyx. 
Style often 4-5 cleft, and the ovarium 8-10 parted, in the 
gardens. 
Canary Island Ironwort. Fl. May, Aug. Clt. 1697. Shrub 
3-6 feet. 
Secr. II, EuPEpócLEA (the name of an ancient philosopher.) 
Benth. lab. p. 574.— Empedóclea, Rafin. Caratt, ex Guss. 
837 
Small shrubs or perennial herbs, woolly at the base. Floral 
leaves quite entire, clasping the sessile flowers. 
5 S. Syrraca (Lin. spec. p. 801.) suffruticose, clothed with 
white wool; leaves thick, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at the 
base: lower ones crenulated : floral leaves cordate at the base, 
quite entire, equalling the calyxes. h.F. Native of Candia 
and Palestine. Rchb. icon. bot. exot. 1. p. 42. t. 57. Sibth. et 
Smith, fl. graec. 6. p. 41. t. 550.—Sabb. hort. rom. 3. t. 40. 
The whole plant is clothed with white wool. Whorls 6-10- 
flowered. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, yellow, clothed 
with silky villi outside. 
Syrian Ironwort. Fl. June, Sept. 
13 foot. 
6 S. Tav'nica (Bieb. fl. cauc. 2. p. 49.) suffruticose, clothed 
with white wool ; leaves thick, oblong-lanceolate, or spatulate, 
narrowed at the base: lower ones crenulated, clothed with dense 
white wool on both surfaces : floral leaves very broadly cordate, 
acuminated, quite entire, reticulately veined, clothed with loose 
wool, greenish ; calycine teeth lanceolate, mutic. h . H. . Native 
of Tauria, on calcareous mountains. Bieb. cent. pl. rar. ross. 
1. t. 89. Rchb. icon. bot. eur. 4. p. 61. t. 384. S. Syriaca, 
Pall. ind. taur. but not of Lin. S. incàna, Habliz, taur. p. 148, 
but not of Lin. Nearly allied to S. Syriaca. Corollas yellow. 
Taurian Ironwort. Fl. June, Sept. Clt. 1822. Shrub 1 to 
13 foot. 
7 S. Srcura (Ucria, ex Guss. prod. fl. sic. 2. p. 85.) suffruti- 
cose, clothed with white wool; leaves thick, oblong-spatulate, 
narrowed at the base: lower leaves crenulated, woolly on both 
surfaces: floral ones very broadly cordate, acuminated, quite 
entire, reticulately veined, clothed with loose wool, green, about 
twice as long as the calyxes ; calycine teeth lanceolate-subulate, 
very acute, rather spinescent. ^. F. Native of the South of 
Europe; as of Spain, Italy, Sicily. S. Brütia, Tenore, fl. nap. 
2. p. 16. Empedéclea montana, Rafin. Caratt. p. 78. S. de- 
cümbens, Moench, meth. p. 390.?  Naviculària Heistéri, Fa- 
bric. Very nearly allied to S. Syriaca. Corollas yellow. 
Sicilian Ironwort. Shrub 14 to 2 feet. 
8 S. Lisanérica (Labill. icon. pl. syr. rar. 4. p. 13. t. 8.) 
suffruticose ; branches simple, glabrous ; leaves obovate-oblong, 
serrated, tomentose ; whorls distant ; bracteas ovate, acuminated, 
Clt. 1597. Shrub 1 to 
reticulately veined ; calycine segments mucronate. b. F. Na- 
tive of Mount Lebanon. Floral leaves sessile. Whorls 4-8- 
flowered. Bracteas length of calyxes. Calyx pilose. Corolla 
pale yellow, pilose, the tube length of calyx. 
Lebanon lronwort. Shrub 1 to 11 foot. 
9 S. pu’tLuLans (Vent. hort. cels. t. 98.) suffruticose ; stem 
rather woolly at the base, green and pubescent above, divaricately 
branched; leaves ovate-lanceolate, half stem-clasping, stiff, reti- 
culately veined, green on both surfaces, pubescent or canescent 
from loose wool: floral leaves broadly cordate, acuminated, 
twice as long as the flowers ; calyx green, with subulate spinose 
teeth. kh. F, Native of Syria, on mountains near Jerusalem 
and Nazareth, Bové. Leaves 2-3 inches long ; floral ones 1 to 
1j inch long. Whorls 6-10-flowered. Corolla pubescent out- 
side. Perhaps only a variety of S. Libanótica. 
Sprouting Ironwort. Shrub. 
10 S. pu'ra (Benth. lab. p. 576.) suffruticose ; stem clothed 
with white wool; leaves sessile, half stem-clasping, lanceolate, 
acute, quite entire, stiff, rather woolly from hoary villi on both 
surfaces : floral leaves broad-cordate, equalling the calyxes, quite 
entire, acuminated ; calyx clothed with soft villi, with soft mutie 
teeth, 5. F. Native country unknown. Habit of S. Syriaca, 
but the form of the leaves is different, the whole plant is less 
woolly, and the whorls more numerous and more remote. Whorls 
about 6-flowered. Floral leaves very concave. 
Hard Ironwort. Shrub. 
