Salvia. | LABIAT (Skan). 315 
8. 8. africana (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 38, excl. syn. Plukenet.) ; a 
much-branched shrub; branches shortly grey-pubescent ; leaves 
subsessile or petiolate, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, oblong, obovate 
or sometimes lanceolate, 1-1} in. long, 2-8 lin. broad, acute, apicu- 
late, obtuse or rounded, often cuneate at the base, entire, crenate- 
dentate or sometimes coarsely lobed, often rugose, densely grey- 
tomentose beneath, strigillose to glabrous above; whorls 2- to 
many-flowered, usually distant, in terminal rarely branched racemes ; 
bracts broadly ovate to suborbicular ; calyx broadly campanulate, 
4—5 lin. long, acerescent, veined, purplish, villous; lips short and 
broad ; upper lip very shortly and broadly 3-toothed ; lower lip 
broadly 2-lobed; teeth and lobes all apiculate or acute ; corolla 
purple, violet or blue, 8-12 lin. long; tube 4-6 lin, long, 23-34 lin. 
broad at the apex, annular-pilose inside ; upper lip 4—6 lin. long, 
shortly 2-lobed ; lower lip 4~5 lin. long, 54-64 lin. broad ; median 
lobe obreniform, 53-6} lin. broad ; lateral lobes small, rounded. 
Thunb. Prodr. 96, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 449 ; Vahl, Enum. i. 230; 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. i. 237, and Mant. i. 200 ; A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. 
i. 308 ; Benth. Lab. 216, in E. Meyer, Comm. 234, and in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 274. §. africana cerulea, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 26. 8. africana 
frutescens, ete, Commel. Hort. Amst. ii. 181, t. 91. S. rotundifolia, 
Salish. Prodr. 74. 8. colorata, Vahl, Enum, i. 230, S. barbata, 
Lam. Ill. i. 72. S. integerrima, Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. viii. n. 12. 
S. foliis oblongo-ovatis integerrimis, Mill. Ic. ii. 150, ¢. 225, fig. 2. 
S. foliis subrotundis serratis, ete., Mill. Ic. ii. 150, t. 225, fig. 1. 
SourH A¥rRica: without locality, Heklon! Forbes! Forster | Mund! Pappe! 
Thom, 545! Thunberg ! 
Coast REGION: Malmesbury Div. ; Zwartland, Zeyher ! Riebecks Castle, Drége, 
7939c! Tulbagh Div. ; at the foot of Mosterts Berg, near Mitchells Pass, 1000 ft., 
MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1640 ! Mitchells Pass, 1200 ft., Schlechter, 8958! 
Piquetberg Road, T'yson, 2327 ! Worcester Diy. ; near Brand Vlei, Bolus, 5223 
partly ! Paarl Div. ; between Paarl and Lady Grey Railway Bridge, Drége, 7938 ! 
Cape Div. ; various localities on the Cape Peninsula, Bolus, 2894! 2895! 
Burchell, 73! 811! 770! Cooper, 2892! Ecklon, 716! Drége! MacGillivray, 566 ! 
Milne, 172! Wolley Dod, 627! 628! 736! Prior! Mrs. C. Southey in Herb. 
Galpin, 7850! Stellenbosch Div. ; between Stellenbosch and Somerset West, 
Drege, 7939b! Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg, about 1000 ft., Galpin, 4424! 
The leaves are very variable in shape, even on the same plant. A form in which 
they are broadly obovate and rounded at the apex, as in Drége 7938, has been 
distinguished as var. obtusa, Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 234. 
S. subspathulata, Lehm. in E, Otto, Hamb. Gartenz. vi. 457, from the descrip- 
tion appears to be the same as S. africana. 
9. §. dentata (Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 37); a much-branched 
shrub ; branches minutely grey-pubescent, often becoming glabrous ; 
leaves usually crowded, petiolate or the upper subsessile, spathulate 
or obovate, sometimes lanceolate or linear, rounded or sometimes 
subacute, crenate-dentate to pinnatifid, rarely quite entire, often 
undulate-crisped, shortly grey-tomentose ; blade 2-6 lin. long, 1—4 
lin. broad; petiole 1-6 lin. long ; whorls 2—6-flowered, close together 
or rather distant, in short terminal rarely branched racemes ; bracts 
