326 LABIATA (Skan). [Salvia 
outside ; tube subcylindric, 3 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad at the throat, 
annular-pilose inside 1} lin. from the base ; upper lip elliptic, 1} lin. 
long, emarginate ; lower lip 2-23 lin. long ; median lobe broadly 
obovate, 1} lin. long, 13 lin. broad, slightly emarginate ; lateral 
lobes smaller, rounded. S. scabra, Benth. Lab. 305, partly, not of 
Linn. f. 8. runcinata, var. crispa, Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 237, 
and in DC. Prodr. xii. 352, partly. 
Var. B, hispidula (Skan) ; branches and the underside of the leaves covered 
with short somewhat hispid hairs, not tomentose. S. scabra, Benth. Lab. 305,. 
partly, not of Linn. f. 8S. runcinata, var. B, crispa, Benth, in DC. Prod. xii. 852, 
partly. : 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, var. B, Thom, 209! Ecklon, 77! 
CEenTrRAL Recion: Victoria West Div. ; Winterveld, between Nieuwjaars. 
Fontein and Ezels Fontein, 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 803 ! Richmond Div. ; Rhenoster 
Poort, Burchell, 2120! 
The locality given by Bentham for Drége’s specimen is Nieuwveld. 
27, S. stenophylla (Burch. ex Benth. Lab. 306) ; an erect weak 
perennial much-branched herb, 3-1} ft. high ; branches suberect, 
giving the plant a pyramidal form, often very slender, almost. 
glabrous or usually with a few short stiff hairs, gland-dotted ; leaves 
shortly petiolate or subsessile, linear to lanceolate-oblong, pinnatifid 
to pinnatisect, 34 (usually 14-23) in. long, 3-10 (usually 3-6) lin. 
broad, very sparingly shortly and stiffly hairy chiefly on the nerves. 
beneath, densely gland-dotted ; lateral lobes usually 6-12 each side, 
smallest towards the apex, subdeltoid to linear-oblong, 4-6 (usually 
14-4) lin. long, about 3-14 lin. broad, subacute to rounded, denti- 
culate, often crisped ; whorls usually 6-flowered, distant, in slender 
racemes 3-7 in. long terminating the numerous branches ; bracts. 
ovate, acuminate, shorter than the calyx ; pedicels about 1 lin. 
long; calyx tubular-campanulate, 24-2} lin. long, sparingly and 
minutely hispidly hairy, densely gland-dotted ; upper lip 1-1} lin. 
long, with 3 short apiculate or acuminate teeth ; lower lip 1-1} lin. 
long, bifid; teeth lanceolate-triangular, 3-1 lin. long, acute or 
acuminate ; corolla blue or lilac, 4—5 lin. long; tube 24-3} lin. long, 
ventricose at the throat, annular-pilose inside about 1 lin. from the 
base; upper lip suborbicular, 1}—-1} lin. long and broad, slightly 
emarginate ; lower lip 2-2} lin. long; median lobe transversely 
oblong, narrowed at the base, about 1 lin. long, 12 lin. broad, 
slightly emarginate ; lateral lobes short, rounded. Benth. in E. 
Meyer, Comm, 238, and in DO. Prodr. xii. 353. 
Var. B, subintegra (Skan); leaves (only the upper seen) minutely undulate- 
denticulate, not deeply toothed to pinnatisect. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1336! 
Coast Recon: Uitenhage Div.; hills in Uitenhage Karroo, Prior! Fort 
Beaufcrt Div. ; Kat River Poort, Drége, 7946b! Ceded Territory (ex Bentham),. 
Ecklon! Queenstown Div. ; Queenstown, Cooper, 2893 ! plains near Queenstown, 
3500 ft., Galpin, 1645! Imvane, Baur, 82! Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 941! 
CeNTRAL RecIon: Graaff Reinet Div. ; around Graaff Reinet, MacOwan, 995 ! 
Bolus, 734! Beaufort West Div. ; between Beaufort West and Rhenoster Kop, 
