Salvia. | LABIATA (Skan). 327 
2500-3000 ft., Drége, 7946a! Albert Div. ; Stormberg Spruit, Burke, Colesberg 
Div. ; Colesberg, Shaw ! 
Kabanart ReGion: Griqualand West ; Griqua Town, Burchell, 1881! Orange 
River Colony ; Witte Bergen, Bowker, 658! Orange and Caledon Rivers, Burke! 
Mrs, Hutton! Harrismith, sankey, 229! Bethlehem, Richardson ! Bechuanaland ; 
Batlapin Territory, Holub! Transvaal; Potchefstroom, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 6167 ! 
Burtt-Davy, 2707! Warm Bath, Burtt-Davy, 2607! Var. 8: Bechuanaland ; 
Batlapin Territory, Holub ! 
EastERN REGION: Natal; Weenen County, Wood, 3581! near Gourton, 
4300 ft., Wood, 3631! 
Salvia xerobia, Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2”° sér. iii. 1076, we have not seen. 
We suspect that it is the same as S. stenophylla, in which the calyx is never quite 
glabrous, and its teeth are more or less spinescent-acuminate. The plant is 
usually very freely branched. 
28. S. runcinata (Linn. f. Suppl. 89) ; a perennial herb with a long 
woody subterranean caudex ; stem erect, rather slender, simple or 
branched in the upper part, up to 1} ft. high or more, densely 
covered with slender mostly short hairs ; leaves shortly petiolate or 
the upper subsessile, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-obovate, runcinate- 
pinnatipartite or coarsely erose-dentate to pinnatifid towards the 
apex, 4-34 in. long, }-l}in. broad, acute, somewhat hispidly 
pubescent both sides, scabrous, slightly rugose and crisped ; terminal 
lobe large and elliptic in the basal leaves, smaller and triangular in 
the upper; lateral lobes 3—5 each side, more or less distant, oblong 
to oblong-lanceolate, 3-7 lin. long, 14-4 lin. broad, usually acute, 
erose-dentate ; whorls usually 2—6-flowered, very distant, in terminal 
racemes 3-12 in. long; bracts ovate, acuminate, shorter than the 
calyx ; calyx campanulate, 24-34 lin. long, slightly larger in fruit, 
somewhat hispidly hairy, densely gland-dotted ; upper lip 1-1? lin. 
long, truncate, 3-toothed ; teeth subulate from a broad base, j-§ 
lin. long, spinescent ; lower lip bifid ; teeth lanceolate-triangular, 
3-14 lin. long, spinescent; corolla blue, 23-4} lin. long; tube 
funnel-shaped, 13-3 lin. long ; upper lip obovate, 1-14 lin. long, 
emarginate ; lower lip 1}-2} lin. long ; median lobe broadly obovate, 
3-1} lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad, emarginate ; lateral Icbes smaller, 
rounded. Thunb. Prodr. 97, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 452; Vahl, 
Enum. i. 260; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, i. 58; Roem. et Schult. Syst. i. 
260, and Mant. i. 213; A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. 343; Benth. Lab. 305, 
and in DC. Prodr. xii. 352 partly ; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 5, t.8. 8. 
runcinata, var. major, Benth. m DC. Prodr. xii. 352. SB. scabra, 
Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 236, and in DC. Prodr, xii. 351, partly, 
not of Linn. f. 
Var. 8, nana (Skan); very dwarf, the entire plant only 6 in. high or less; 
leaves 2-4 in. long, pinnatipartite, often purplish above ; terminal lobe subelliptic, 
up to 14 in. long, 10-11 lin. broad, rounded ; lateral lubes 3 or 4 each side, 3-8 
lin. long, 2-3 lin, broad, rounded. 
Var. y, grandiflora (Skan) ; corolla about 5 lin. long. S, scabra, var, angustt- 
folia, Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 236, and in DC. Prodr, xii. 351, 
Sout Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! and cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Recton: Caledon Div.; Caledon, Prior! Riversdale Div.; near the 
Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6624! Uitenhage Div. ; Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 
