324 | LABIATA (Skan). [Salvia. 
Roem. et Schult. Syst. i. 228, and Mant. i. 187 ; A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. 
i. 287; Benth. Lab. 308, in E. Meyer, Comm. 236, and in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 351, partly. SS. tenuifolia, Burch. ex Benth. Lab. 304. 
Souru AFrRIca: without locality, Ecklon! Thunberg ! and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast REGIon: Uitenhage Div. ; Enon, 1000-2000 ft., Drege, 7942! hills in 
Uitenhage Karroo, Prior! Stockenstrom Div. ; Katberg, 4000 ft., Shaw! British 
Kaffraria, Cooper, 396 ! 
CENTRAL Recton : Somerset Div. ; at Blyde River, Burchell, 2981! 
23. S. obtusata (Thunb. Prodr. 97); stem branched and some- 
what woody at the base, herbaceous above ; branches ascending, up 
to 1 ft. long, terete, glabrous and smooth below, quadrangular 
and more or less sparingly covered with very short stiff hairs above ; 
leaves elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 3-2 in. long, $-1} in. broad, 
usually rounded, often hastate at the base or deeply few-lobed 
especially in the lower half, rarely cuneate at the base, mostly 
crenate, usually with some rather stiff often long hairs on the 
nerves beneath and here and there on the margins ; petiole }—2 in. 
long, usually with long rather stiff spreading hairs, sometimes quite 
glabrous ; whorls loosely 2—6-flowered, distant, often secund, in 
simple or branched racemes 4-8 in. long; bracts broadly ovate, 
acuminate, much shorter than the calyx ; pedicels 1-4 lin. long; 
calyx 34-41 lin. long, shortly hispidly pubescent outside and inside, 
more or less ciliate on the ribs and margins of the lips; upper lip 
truncate, 3-toothed ; teeth usually broad at the base and subulate 
above, 4—11 lin. long, lower lip bifid; teeth lanceolate- or linear- 
triangular, 14 lin, long; corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, 6-8 lin. 
long, sparingly pilose outside; tube 43-6} lin. long, ventricose at 
the throat; upper lip erect, 14-1? lin. long, 1} lin. broad, 
emarginate ; lower lip about 24 lin. long, 3-lobed ; median lobe 
broadly obcordate, 1 lin. long, 1} lin. broad; lateral lobes broad, 
very short. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 451 ; Roem. et Schult. Syst. 
i. 260, and Mant. i. 213; A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. 341; Benth. Lab. 308, 
and in DC. Prodr. xii. 351. S. marginata, Benth. in E. Meyer, 
Comm. 236, and in DOC. Prodr. xii. 351. 
SourH Arrica : without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast REGIon: Uitenhage Div. ; Ecklon! between Coega River and Sunday 
River, Drége, 7944a! Addo, 400-1000 ft., Drége, 7944b! valley and hills of ths 
Zwartkops River, 50-500 ft., Zeyher, 3533! Albany Div. ; Grahamstown, Prior! 
Curries Kloof, Grahamstown, MacOwan, 556 ! 
CENTRAL ReEcion: Albert Div., Cooper, 592! 
The type specimen of S. obtusata appears to be somewhat depauperate. It is 
more slender than the other specimens cited, the few leaves present are thianer, 
mostly smaller, cuneate at the base or sometimes slightly hastate, the whorls are 
2-flowered, and the pedicels are longer. 
24. 8. lasiostachys (Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 350) ; stem herba- 
ceous, hispid ; hairs tuberculate at the base ; leaves shortly petiolate, 
rigid, semi-orbicular or ovate-suborbicular, 1-14 in. long or more, 
up to 2 in. broad, cordate-truncate at the base, broadly dentate, 
hispid and green on both sides; whorls 6-10-flowered, lax, about 
