96 DR. 7. Е. Т. AITCHISON ON THE BOTANY OF 
SALVIA MACROSIPHON, Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 615. 
Hari-rud valley: 594, June 8, 1885; Khorasan: 636, June 16, 1885. A common 
· plant in stony ground. 
SALVIA CERATOPHYLLA, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 617. 
Badghis: 530, May 21, 1885. In the low sandstone hills near Gulran, at an altitude 
of about 3000 feet; very conspicuous, owing to its peculiar soft velvety radical leaves, 
which are so very different from the rest of the plant. It is said (о be employed in 
medicine. 
ZIZIPHORA TENUIOR, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 587. 
Hari-rud valley: 329, April 27, 1885, Мау 10, 1885; Khorasan, July 1, 1885. Native 
name Kakuti. Common in gravelly soil; employed in medicine. 
ZIZIPHORA CANESCENS, Benth.—-Z. clinopodioides, Bieb., var. В. canescens, Boiss. Fl. Or. 
lv. p. 585. 
Khorasan: 639, June 16, 1885. In stony ground, at an altitude above 4000 feet; а 
small close bush, a foot in height. 
_ МЕРЕТА Meyert, Benth.— Nepeta micrantha, Bunge; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. р. 664. 
Badghis: 467, 1095, Мау 16, 1885. Common in shady places, іп stony soil. 
NEPETA PUNGENS, Benth.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 666. 
Badghis: 472, May 16, 1885. 
NEPETA SATUREIOIDES, Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 667. 
Hari-rud valley: 413, May 9, 1885; Khorasan: July 1, 1885. In the dried-up 
gravelly beds of water-courses. Flowers lavender-blue. 
NEPETA PERSICA, Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 657. 
Khorasan : 642, June 16, 1885. In the débris at the foot of limestone cliffs, at an 
altitude of 5000 feet; common. 
МЕРЕТА ($ САТАВТА, Benth., $ Місвахтнж, Boiss.) SEwERZOWII, Regel. (Plate XLI.) 
Annua, erecta, parce puberula, caule, ut videtur, semper simplici, 6-18 poll. alto, 
graciliuseulo. Folia graciliter petiolata vel suprema subsessilia, cordato-rotundata 
vel oblonga, grosse сгепаба (specimina Stocksiana foliis angustioribus breviter 
petiolatis). Flores parvi, pauci in cymas laxas graciliter pedunculatas foliis bre- 
viores dispositi; calyx scabridus, conspicue 20-nervis, subzequaliter 5-dentatus, 
dentibus fere aculeatis, fructifer rigidus, basi valde ventricosus; corolle hirtæ tubo 
incluso. Nucule rotundatze, tuberculatee vel verrucose, areola magna laterali. 
Badghis: 373, May 1, 1885. In shady places, very common. 
Next to М. micrantha, from which it is readily distinguished by its fewer-flowered 
looser cymes, and nearly equally toothed calyx, which is very much obliquely inflated in 
_ the fruiting stage. The same species was collected by Stocks in Baluchistan, and we at 
first took it for an undescribed one, as there was no specimen at Kew of N. Sewerzowii ; 
e but we have since received Dr, Regel's determination. 
