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Meriandra.] CXII. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 653 
A small shrub; branches obscurely angled. Leaves 3-4 by 3-1} in., obtuse or 
acute, base sagittate or cordate, upper surface almost granulate, lower white ; petiole 
iin. very stout. Spikes 1-2 in. by 4 in. diam., panicled; bracts broadly ovate. 
Calyx țin., woolly. Corolla rather longer, as much in diameter. 
2. M. bengalensis, Benth. Lab. 189, in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i.29, and 
in DC. Prodr. xii. 262; finely tomentose or hoary, spikes terminal with 
interrupted ebracteate globose whorls. Wall. Cat. 1526; Grah. Cat. Bomb. 
PL151; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl., Addend. 66; Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. 
Bot. 134, t. 139." Salvia bengalensis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 145. S. dianthera, 
Roth Nov. Sp. 18. S. abyssinica, Br. in Append. Salts Travels. S. 
Schimperiana, Hochst. in Schimp. Iter Abyss. n. 1781. 
Cultivated in Inpra. DisTRIB. Native of Abyssinia. 
A large straggling shrub; branches cylindric. Leaves 2-3 by 1-1} in., finely 
crenulate, obtuse, thinner than in M. strobilifera, as finely granulate above and 
reticulate beneath, base rounded or bractate; petiole slender, i-j in. Whordls 4-3 in. 
diam., villous. Calyx 1 in. long, pedicelled, teeth acute. Corolla white, lips 
spreading or recurved. 
28. SAL VIA, Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs. Whorls usually racemed or spiked; bracts small or 
large. Calyz tubular or campanulate, upper lip entire or 3-toothed, lower 
2-fid, throat naked. Corolla-tube naked or with a ring of hairs inside ; 
upper lip erect, lower 3-lobed, lateral lobes spreading. Stamens, 2 perfect, 
filaments short, jointed on the slender connective which bears 1 or 2 perfect 
cells. Disk tumid behind. Style ascending, 2-fid. Nutlets 3-quetrous, 
smooth.— Species 450, tropical and temperate. 
Sect. 1. Drymosphace, Benth. Perennial herbs; floral leaves very 
small. Upper calyx-lip entire or 3-toothed. Corolla-tube exserted, annu- 
late within; upper lip falcate, compressed. Connectives with an imperfect 
cell behind. 
1. S. glutinosa, Linn.; herbaceous, tall, robust, viscidly hairy, leaves 
hastately ovate-oblong toothed, whorls distant few- and lax-fld., calyx tubu- 
lar-campanulate, corolla large yellow. Benth. in DO. Prodr. xii. 276; 
Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1246, £. 1; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 609. S. nubicola, 
Benth. Lab. 219, and in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 68; Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. 
t. 140; Wall. Cat. 2146. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir, alt, 6-9000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 10-12,000 ft. 
DISTRIB. istan, S. Europe, W. Asia. . 
Stem 23 fe eaves 4-7 by 2-4 in. P petiole 1-3 in. EM in large branched 
Spreadi i dicelled. Calyx } in, upper li 7 ac ‘ire, 
teeth of. ea eee shortly pe Corolla ld in., tube exserted, throat dilated, limb 
gaping.  Nutlets 4 in., elliptic-obovate, compressed, smooth. 
2. S. hians, Royle mss. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 373, and W. PL Bima 
303, t. 75, f. 3; herbaceous, tall, robust, viscidly hairy, leaves long-petioled 
Ovate-hastate or -cordate toothed, whorls distant bine s Wh ah "O19, 
roadly shortly campanulate, corolla very large blue. enti. ‘eas 
717, and in De. Prodr. xii. 276; Bot. Reg. 1841 t. 99; Bot. Mag. t. 6517 
(exel. syn. S. macrophylla ?). & 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 8-11,000 ft., Falconer, Ce 
Habit of S. glutinosa, but petioles much longer, often 10 in., and me ra 1 
roader; calyx much broader; corolla 14 in., blue with very inflated throat an 
shorter lips; nutlets similar but larger, 2 in. long. 
