Salvia. | LABIATA (Skan). 319 
rounded, truncate or cordate at the base, rather regularly erose- 
crenate, very rugose above, shortly whitish tomentose beneath ; 
inflorescence and flowers as in S. rugosa. 
Sout Arrica : without locality, Zeyher, 1333 ! 
KataHart Recion: Transvaal; Magalies Berg and Mooi River, Burke! 
Malmanie Oog and Buffels Hoek, near Jacobsdahl, Burtt-Davy, 86! Zeerust, 
Marico District, about 5000 ft., Burtt-Davy, 109! 7179! Crocodile River, Burtt- 
Davy, 186! Miss Leendertz, 707 ! 
Zeyher’s and Burtt-Davy’s specimens are much less tomentose than the type. 
A specimen collected in the Matebe Valley, Transvaal, by Holub, has indumentum 
approaching that of S. rugosa to which S. Radula is very closely allied. 
15. 8. disermas (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 36); stem herbaceous or 
becoming somewhat woody at the base ; branches ascending, densely 
glandular-villous; leaves petiolate, the upper subsessile, oblong- 
lanceolate or sometimes ovate, rounded to acute, cuneate, rounded 
or cordate at the base, coarsely erose-dentate, more or less rugose, 
glandular-pubescent, 1-4} in. long, ?-2 in. broad; petiole up to 
13 in. long; whorls 6-10-flowered, distant, in simple or branched 
terminal racemes up to 8 in. long ; bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, 
the upper shorter than the calyx; calyx campanulate, 3} lin. long, 
12- or 13-nerved, glandular-pilose; upper lip broadly ovate, minutely 
and acutely 3-toothed; lower lip bifid; teeth ovate-triangular, 
14-14 lin. long, acuminate-pungent ; corolla whitish, 3-6 lin. long ; 
tube 2-33 lin. long, ventricose at the throat; upper lip 1}—2} lin. 
long, emarginate ; lower lip 1}1—-2$ lin. long ; median lobe transversely 
oblong, 1 lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad, retuse, concave ; lateral lobes 
ovate-oblong, 4-3 lin. long, }—} lin. broad, slightly oblique, rounded 
to subacute. Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 139; Vahl, Enum. i. 266 ; Ait. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2, i. 59; Roem. et Schult. Syst. i. 246; A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. 
323 ; Benth. Lab. 236, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 291. S. caule fruticoso, 
etc., Arduini, Animad. Bot. Sp. i. 9, t. 1. Horminum disermas, 
Moench, Meth. Suppl. 140. H. sylvestre majus, etc., Barrel. Pl. Gall. 
Obs. 25, Ic. 187. 
Souru Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1834! and cultivated specimens / 
Coast Reaton: Uniondale Div. ; Olifants River, Bolus, 1789 bis ! 
Centra, Rroion: Calvinia Div.; Onder Bokkeveld at Matjes Fontein, 
2200 ft., Schlechter, 10926 ! 
This is probably only a small-flowered form of S. rugosa, It is doubtful 
whether the South African material belongs to the true S. disermas, stated by 
Linnzeus to be a native of Syria. 
16. §. clandestina (Linn.), var. angustifolia (Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. xii. 295); stem herbaceous, erect, }—2 ft. high, simple or 
branched, covered with long and spreading hairs mixed with short 
and adpressed ones; leaves petiolate or the upper subsessile, 
narrowly oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, 14-4} (usually about 2) in. 
long, }-1 in. broad, subacute or rounded, irregularly pinnatifid or 
laciniate, sometimes erose-dentate, puberulous chiefly beneath, more 
or less pilose on the principal veins, usually rugose ; whorls usually 
