Salvia. | LABIATA (Skan). 323 
Kaanart Recion: Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rekmann, 6153 ! 
Eastern Recron: Transkei; between Gekau (Geua) River and Bashee River, 
1000-2000 ft., Drége, 7941b! Kentani District, 1200 ft., Miss Pegler, 913! 
21. 8. pallidifolia (Skan); a slender erect branched herb 1} ft. 
high or more, hispidly puberulous on all the green parts; branches 
erect-spreading, scarcely } lin. in diam.; leaves petiolate, pale 
green, ovate-triangular, usually with 2 or sometimes 3 small auricles 
at the base, 10-18 lin. long, 7-12 lin. broad, rounded or rarely 
subacute, somewhat regularly crenate-dentate, thin, pale green, 
gland-dotted ; petiole 1-4 lin. long; whorls 2—6-flowered, usually 
5-8 lin. apart, lax, in slender terminal racemes 1}—4} lin. long ; 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, usually about as long as the pedicels, 
acuminate, occasionally the lowermost larger and _foliaceous ; 
pedicels slender, 1-2 lin. long; calyx campanulate, 34 lin. long, 
scarcely longer when mature, sparingly pubescent and gland-dotted ; 
tube 1% lin. long; upper lip 1} lin. long; teeth lanceolate- or 
linear-triangular, 4-1 lin. long; lower lip 1} lin. long; teeth 
lanceolate- or linear-triangular, 1 lin. long ; corolla rose-coloured, 
5-6 lin. long, slightly pubescent ; tube 4-4} lin. long, subcylindric 
for about 3 lin. from the base where it is } lin. broad, 1} lin. broad 
at the throat; upper lip obcordate, 1} lin. long; lower lip 13-2? 
lin. long ; median lobe obcordate, 1}—-1} lin. long, 1}-2 lin. broad ; 
lateral lobes very small, rounded. S. scabra, Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 351, partly, not of Linn. f. 8. triangularis, Benth. Le., partly, 
not of Thunb. 
i ei Recron : Stockenstrom Div. ; Tyumie Berg, Ecklon ! Katberg, 4000 ft., 
w ! 
m CrentraL Recron : Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, near Somerset East, Burchell, 
3165! 
22. §. triangularis (Thunb. Prodr. 96); stem herbaceous, erect 
“or ascending, slender, simple or branched, 6-18 in. high, more or 
less pilose ; leaves ovate-deltoid or ovate-rounded, }$—1} in. long, 
1-1 in. broad, acute or rounded at the apex, truncate, slightly 
cordate, sometimes cuneate or deeply few-lobed at the base, crenate 
or crenate-dentate, more or less softly pilose on both sides, sometimes 
gland-dotted beneath ; petiole usually }—-1} in. long ; whorls loosely 
2-6-flowered, distant, in simple racemes 2-8 in. long ; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, much shorter than the calyx ; calyx 34-4 lin. 
long, pilose and sometimes slightly gland-dotted outside, puberulous 
inside; upper lip truncate, 3-toothed ; teeth broad at the base, 
subulate above, 4-1 lin. long, the median shorter than the lateral ; 
lower lip bifid; teeth lanceolate-triangular, acuminate, 1-1} lin. 
long ; corolla blue, 5-7 lin. long, villous on the upper part outside ; 
tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 33-6 lin. long, 5-3 lin. broad at the 
base, 1}-1} lin. broad at the throat ; upper lip obovate or elliptic, 
14-1} lin. long, entire or emarginate ; lower lip 13-2} lin. long ; 
median lobe very broadly obcordate, 1-1} lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad ; 
lateral lobes very small, rounded. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. “ee 451; 
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