314 LABIAT (Skan). [ Salvia. 
1341¢! Mossel Bay Div. ; Mossel Bay, under 500 ft., Drége, 1841d ! Knysna Div. ; 
between Knysna River Ford and Goukamma River, Burchell, 5556! Uitenbage 
Div., Zeyher, 144! Port Elizabeth Div. ; along the Baakens River near Port 
Elizabeth, Burchell, 4344! Algoa Bay, Forbes! Bathurst Div.; sea coast, 
Mrs. Hutton! mouth of the Fish River, MacOwan, 419! Port Alfred, Miss Sole, 
460 ! 
6. §. nivea (Thunb. Prodr. 96); a branched erect shrub, 3 ft. 
high, more or less covered with short grey tomentum ; leaves. 
petiolate or the upper subsessile, thick, subcoriaceous, sometimes 
slightly rugose, oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate or sometimes ovate, 
3-1} in, long, 2-7 lin. broad, acute, entire or the lower auriculate 
or dentate ; petiole 1-7 lin. long; whorls 2-flowered, in short 
usually branched terminal racemes ; calyx broadly campanulate, 
7-8 lin. long, accrescent, membranous after flowering, veined, 
purplish, villous ; upper lip broad, undulate ; lower lip shortly and 
broadly 2-lobed ; corolla about 14 in. long, purple, sparingly pubes- 
cent outside; tube 10-11 lin. long, 23-4 lin. broad above ; upper 
lip 8-9 lin. long, slightly falcate, compressed, emarginate ; lower 
lip about 5 lin. long and broad, flat ; median lobe 3 lin. long and 
broad ; lateral lobes much smaller, rounded. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 450; Vahl, Enum. i. 231; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. i. 238, 
and Mant. i. 200; A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. 306; Benth. Lab. 218, in 
E. Meyer, Comm. 233, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 273. S. lanceolata, 
Lam. Il. i. 72; Poir. Encyel. vi. 591. S. diversifolia, Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. xii. 274, in syn. S. nitida, Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docu- 
mente, 103. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Ecklon ! 
Coast Reaton: Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Ebenezer, Drége, 1340d! Clanwilliam 
Div. ; between Berg Vallei and Lange Vallei, Drége, 1340c! Malmesbury Div. ; 
Zwartland and Groenekloof, Thunberg! Riebecks Castle, Drége, 1340b. Tulbagh 
Div. ; Vogel Vallei, under 1000 ft., Drége, 1340a! Cape Div. ; near Cape Town, 
Bolus, 4765! Cape Flats, Zeyher, Burke! Vygeskraal Farm, Wolley Dod, 652! 
7. 8. hastefolia (Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 233); an erect 
branched shrub, sparingly viscid pulverulent-puberulous on the 
stem and branches; leaves rather thick, subcoriaceous, ovate- 
lanceolate, 4-1 in. long, 2-6 lin. broad, acute, cuneate at the base, 
dentate, often hastate-auriculate at the base, pulverulent-glandular, 
shortly and stiffly pubescent ; petiole 2-5 lin. long; whorls usually 
2-flowered, distant, in short branched terminal racemes ; calyx 
broadly campanulate, 7 lin. long, accrescent, membranous after 
flowering, veined, purplish, villous; upper lip broad, undulate ; 
lower lip shortly 2-lobed ; lobes broadly ovate, acute ; corolla about 
1 in. long, shortly pubescent outside ; tube 7} lin. long, 2} lin. 
broad above; upper lip about 6 lin. long, slightly falcate, com- 
pressed ; lower lip 3 lin. long, 2} lin. broad ; median lobe obovate, 
1} lin. long, 15 lin. broad, emarginate; lateral lobes smaller, 
rounded. DC. Prodr. xii. 274, 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div. ; between Clanwilliam and Bosch Kloof, 
1000-2000 ft., Drége, 7934! 
