320 LABIATA (Skan). [ Salvia. 
6-flowered, distant, in branched or sometimes simple racemes 6-12 
in. long; rhachis densely pilose ; bracts broadly cordate, acuminate, 
shorter than the calyx; calyx 27-31 lin. long, pilose outside, 
densely pilose or villous inside except at the base, 13-nerved ; 
upper lip semi-elliptic, 1} lin. long, slightly broader, minutely and 
acutely 3-toothed, often blue; lower lip deeply bifid; teeth 
lanceolate-triangular, 14-1? lin. long, 4—} lin. broad at the base, 
acuminate-pungent ; corolla 2-5 lin. long; tube 14-3 lin. long, 
ventricose at the throat; upper lip 14-2 lin. long, sparingly pilose 
outside; lower lip 14-1} lin. long; median lobe transversely 
oblong, about 1-1} lin. long, 14-1? lin. broad, emarginate, concave. 
E. Meyer, Comm. 235 (as S. clandestina). 8. cleistogama, De Bary 
& Paul, Ind. Sem. Hort. Halens, 1867, 6; Aschers. in Bot. Zeit. 1871, 
555, and 1872, 293. S. controversa, Ten. Syll. Fl. Neap. 18. S. 
controversa, Benth. Lab. 241, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 295, as to 
Burchell, 1454. S. Verbenaca, Linn., var. controversa, Brig. Lab. 
Alp. Marit. 520. 8S. Verbenaca, var. angustifolia, Pugsley in Journ. 
Bot. 1908, 144. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Ecklon! and a cultivated specimen ! 
Coast Recton: British Kaffraria, Cooper, 2983 ! 
Centrat Recion: Somerset Div. ; at the foot of the Bosch Berg, 2300 ft., 
MacOwan! Graaff Reinet Div. ; Graaff Reinet, in cultivated and other places, 
2500 ft., Bolus, 142! Beaufort West Div. ; near Beaufort West, Zeyher! Fraserburg 
Div. ; between Klein Quaggas Fontein and Dwaal River, Burchell, 1454! Rich- 
mond Div. ; Uitvlugt, various places near Stylkloof, 4000-5000 ft., Drége, 806d ! 
Middelburg Div. ; Conway Farm, 3600 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 5573 ! 
Katanart Recion: Griqualand West; Kimberley, ‘‘the commonest plant 
around the town,” Kolbe, 3160 ! 
The species is a native of South Europe, North Africa, the Orient, the Canaries 
and Madeira. A plant closely resembling the South African form and regarded by 
Bentham as the same occurs in Arabia Felix. The flowers of the South African 
plant are often cleistogamous, 
17. 8. Tysonii (Skan) ; stems herbaceous, stout, apparently tall 
and erect, 14-2} lin. in diam. in the upper part, quadrangular, 
rounded on the angles, broadly furrowed, rather densely often 
brownish-puberulous; lower leaves not seen; upper shortly 
petiolate, pinnatifid or runcinate, 2-3 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, 
densely covered with short fine matted often brownish hairs 
beneath and minutely gland-dotted, sparingly covered with short 
adpressed hairs above; terminal, lobe deltoid-ovate, up to 2 in. 
long and broad, usually acute; lateral lobes few, ovate or oblong, 
3-1 in. long, }-} in. broad, acute, like the terminal lobe erose- 
dentate or shortly lobed; uppermost leaves sessile or subsessile, 
ovate or ovate-oblong, sometimes hastate or auriculate at the base ; 
whorls up to 24-flowered or more, crowded or shortly distant, in 
spike-like terminal racemes or few-branched panicles 4—7 in. long, 
also in short subcapitate racemes terminating short lateral branches ; 
bracts broadly to narrowly ovate, slightly to much shorter than 
the calyx, acuminate ; pedicels about 1 lin. long, densely hairy ; 
calyx tubular-campanulate, 3} lin. long, softly or somewhat hispidly 
