Salvia. | LABIATZ (Skan). 331 
emarginate; lower lip 24 lin. long ; median lobe transversely 
oblong, narrowed at the base, or obcordate, 1-1} lin. long, 13-2} lin. 
broad ; lateral lobes short, rounded. DO. Prodr. xii. 352. 
Coast Rroron: Albany Div., Bowker ! Cathcart Div.; Blesbok Flats, 3000— 
4000 ft., Drége, 7943! without precise locality, Prior ! 
33. S. Peglere (Skan); stem herbaceous, simple or sparingly 
branched, up to about 1} ft. high, slender (only about 1 lin. in 
diam.), densely covered as well as the rhachis with rather short soft 
often recurved greyish hairs which are sometimes minutely gland- 
tipped ; internodes 1-24 in. long ; cauline leaves petiolate or the 
upper sessile or subsessile, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, the larger 
14-21 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, broadly rounded to slightly acute at 
the apex, slightly cordate-sagittate or somewhat hastate at the 
base, or sometimes with a little irregular lobing at the base, shortly 
and irregularly dentate or crenate, softly pubescent on both sides: 
especially on the nerves beneath, thin ; petiole from 11 lin. long in 
the lower leaves to 1 lin. long in the upper; whorls usually 
6-flowered, }—1} in. apart, in terminal racemes 3-5 in. long ; bracts 
ovate, 3} lin. long ; pedicels 14-1} lin. long in flower, 23 jin. long 
in fruit; calyx 3-3} lin. long in flower up to 4} lin. long in fruit, 
clothed with sessile glands and with rather long soft spreading hairs 
which are sometimes minutely gland-tipped ; upper lip 1-2 lin. 
long, 3-toothed ; teeth broadly deltoid at the base, subulate above, 
2-1 lin. long, with a broad sinus between them; lower lip bifid, 
13-2} lin. long; teeth narrowly deltoid at the base, subulate above, 
14-14 lin. long ; corolla lilac or purple, 5}-6 lin. long ; tube 33-4} 
lin. long, about 1} lin. broad at the slightly ventricose upper part, 
imperfectly annular-pilose inside; upper lip broadly obovate, 1? lin. 
long and broad, emarginate ; lower lip 2} lin. long; median lobe 
oblate-obovate, 14 lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad, retuse or emarginate ; 
lateral lobes 2 lin. long, } lin. broad, rounded ; stamens shorter or 
slightly longer than the upper lip. 
Coast Reaion : East London Div. ; Fort Pato, in grassy fields, Galpin, 7830 ! 
Eastern Recron : Transkei ; Kentani District, in valleys and along roadsides, 
1200 ft., Miss Pegler, 196! 
Distinguished from S. raphanifolia, Benth., by the much broader leaves, the 
lower of which are distinctly petiolate. Miss Pegler states that a valuable lotion 
for ophthalmia is obtained from it. 
34. S. rudis (Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 235); stem herbaceous, 
simple, rather slender, about 1 #t. high, densely covered as well as 
the leaves and inflorescence with somewhat hispid hairs; basal 
leaves long-petiolate ; cauline shortly petiolate or the upper sessile ; 
blade elliptic or oblong-obovate, i-2} in. long, $-1} in. broad, 
rounded to subacute, crenate or erose-dentate, somewhat crisped on 
the margins, rugose ; whorls usually 6-flowered, distant, in simple 
racemes 4—6 in. long; bracts ovate, acuminate, shorter than the 
calyx ; calyx 4} lin. long, somewhat hispidly hairy outside, finely 
