Salvia. | CII. LABIATA (BAKER). 457 
shrubs. Leaves often rugose, simple or lobed or rarely compound. 
Whorls of flowers usually distinct ; bracts small or large. Flowers often 
large and brightly coloured. 
Species 450, cosmopolitan, 
Shrub, with woody branches . . . . . L. 8S. somalensis. 
Perennial herbs. 
Bracts large, 
Corolla three times the length of the calyx . 2. 8, Fleckiz. 
Corolla half as long again as the calyx 3. S. Schimperi. 
Bracts small 
Upper lip of the calyx subentire . . . . 4& S. nudicaulis. 
Upper lip of calyx tricuspidate. 
Stem leaves entire . . . . . . 5. 8. nilotica, 
Stem leaves lyrate . . . . . . 6. S. Hochstetteri. 
1. S. somalensis, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 93. A shrub 6-7 ft. 
high, with virgate woody pubescent branches. Leaves oblanceolate- 
oblong, sessile, subentire, rugose, acute or obtuse, 24~3 in. long, finely 
pubescent, narrowed gradually to the base. Whorls 6-8-flowered, 
forming long lax simple racemose panicles ; bracts small, green ; pedicels 
very short, densely hairy. Calyx 4 in. long ; tube densely hairy, funnel- 
shaped ; lips shorter than the tube, upper shortly tridentate, lower with 
two large lanceolate-deltoid teeth. Corolla blue, twice as long as the 
calyx ; lips short ; upper ovate ; lower broad, deflexed, 3-lobed.—Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 367. 
Nile Land. British Somaliland: Serrnt Mountains, near Maid, 4800-5800 ft., 
Hildebrandt, 1419! 
2. S. Pleckii, Giirke in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 551. Stem her- 
baceous, simple, erect, pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-oblong, 
3-4 in. long, obtuse, subcordate at the base, crenate, bullate, hairy on 
both surfaces. Bracts suborbicular or cordate-ovate, the lower } in. 
long ; pedicels short. Calyx pubescent, } in. long; teeth of the upper 
lip very small and acute, of the lower lip acuminate. Corolla three 
times the length of the calyx. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Fleck, 1684. Great 
Namaqualand ; Oakuk-Stolzenfels, Pfei/, 78. 
3. S. Schimperi, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 282. A perennial herb, 
with stout erect much-branched stems, clothed with white tomentum. 
Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, petioled, obscurely crenulate, green 
and slightly tomentose above, densely coated with white tomentum 
beneath, the lower 4—5 in. long. Whorls few-flowered, arranged in 
long Jax racemose panicles; bracts large, broadly ovate, cuspidate, 
Persistent, white with green veins. Calyx above } in. long, pubescent ; 
tube funnel-shaped ; lips short ; teeth lanceolate-deltoid. Corolla white, 
half as long again as the calyx; upper lip } in. long; lower shorter, 
deflexed. A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 192; Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. 
