146 | . ^ DIANDRIA MONOETNIA. Sabi 
ments, and tending to te so on the shorter ones, but very — and ; 
abortive.—Is nearly allied to Thymus. 
SALVIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 50. 
< Corol irregular. Filaments two-forked ; anthers € on the superior dE 
ones. Seeds naked. 
; 1.8. bengalensis. Kon. Mss. 
Shrubby. Leaves linear-ovate, lanceolate, entire. Racemes vertie — 
celled, verticils distinct, many-flowered. An anther to each division — 
of the filaments. 
- The natives on the Coromandel Coast have no name for it. From 
Bengal it was introduced into the gardens on the Coast a few years e 
ago, by Mr. Parsons ; and is only found in gardens, where it grows. 
to be a large, strazgling shrub. : 
Trunk seldom erect, woody, sometimes as thick as a man's arm. 
Bark cracked, and peelling off in irregular pieces. Young shoots dow- | 
ny, round. — Leaves as in salvia officinalis.— Racemes CUTE, often 
compound, verticelled. ‘Verticils approximate, globular, many-flow- 
eréd.— Flowers white.— Calyz gibbous, downy, three or four tooth- 
ed.--Corol, both lips recurved, or spreading.— Stamens, there are 
sometimes three or even four filaments, with their extremities ue 
each division bearing an oval proper anther. : 
Obs. The leaves of this plant smell and taste considerabl y stronger, = 
I think, than those of S. quomm and are applied to the same uses. s: 
/ 
_ 2. S. brachiata. R. ` : 
Aunual, erect, brachiate. Leaves oblong, crenate, tomentose. Ro- ; 
cemes verticelled ; verticils six-flowered ; seeds elevated ona recep- "s 
tac le. ; 
15 a native of moist places, over various parts of India. Flower- 
ig ume the cold season. | 
Stem annual, erect, ramous, four-sided, four-grooved, downy „from 
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