Micromeria. | LABIAT (Skan). 307 
Coast REGION : Queenstown Div. ; foot of the Winter Berg Mountains, near 
the source of the Konap River, Mrs. Barber, 121! 
KALaHari REGION: Transvaal ; around Johannesburg, Rand, 881. 
EasteRN Region: Tembuland ; St. Augustine, Bazeia and Shawbury, 1800- 
2000 ft., Bawr, 220! Griqualand East; Mt. Malowe, near Clydesdale, 4000 ft., 
Tyson, 2129! 
Also in Tropical Africa, Arabia, Afghanistan and India. 
2. M. pilosa (Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 1188); a 
pilose herb; stems weak, prostrate, sparingly branched, 1-1} ft. 
long ; leaves shortly petiolate, ovate, 6-8 lin. long, 5-6 lin. broad, 
obtuse or somewhat acute, few-toothed, long-pilose on both sides 
especially on the nerves, gland-dotted on the underside; petiole 
about 1 lin. long; flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves ; 
peduncles up to 34 lin. long, slender, bibracteate about the middle ; 
calyx tubular-campanulate, 1} lin. long, 15-nerved (5 of the nerves 
more distinct than the others), gland-dotted, pilose ; teeth deltoid 
to triangular-lanceolate, 3 lin. long, acute or subacute ; corolla 4—5 
lin. long, pilose inside on the lower side ; upper lip 1} lin. long and 
broad, emarginate ; lower lip 23 lin. long and broad ; lobes rounded, 
the median larger than the lateral. Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1522. 
Katanarti Recon: Orange Rivet Colony, Cooper, 2903 ! : 
Eastern Recon: Pondoland ; Fakus Territory, Sutherland! Natal ; hills above 
Byrne, Wood, 3172! 
XVI. SALVIA, Linn. 
Calyx ovoid, tubular or campanulate, 2-lipped ; upper lip entire or 
3-toothed ; lower lip bifid. Corolla-tube included or exserted, equal, 
ventricose or enlarged above, naked or annular-pilose inside ; limb 
2-lipped; upper lip erect or falcate, usually concave, entire or 
emarginate ; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 2, anticous, 
arcuate ; filaments short ; connective jointed to the filament, linear, 
elongated, the upper part ascending and bearing an oblong or linear 
perfect anther-cell, the lower deflexed or horizontal, bearing a smaller 
polliniferous or empty anther-cell, or quite naked ; staminodes 2, 
posticous, very small, or wanting. Disk usually more prominent on 
the lower side. Style shortly 2-fid at the apex. Nutlets ovoid- 
triquetrous or somewhat compressed, smooth. 
Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs ; leaves entire, toothed or more or less deeply 
lobed ; bracts small or large, rarely similar to the upper leaves; whorls 2- to 
many-flowered, in spikes, racemes or panicles ; flowers variously coloured, large 
and showy or sometimes small and inconspicuous. 
Disrris. Species about 700, widely dispersed in the temperate and tropical 
regions of both hemispheres. 
S. acetabulosa, Linn., 8. dithiopis, Linn., S. pratensis, Linn., S. Sclarea, Linn., 
and 8. verticillata, Linn., are enumerated in Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 1, but we 
have seen no South African material of them. They are natives of Europe, some 
of them extending into North Africa and the Orient. S. thiopis is described as 
growing on sand dunes around Cape Town by Thunberg (Fl. Cap. ed. 452); 
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