SERTULUM CHINENSE QUINTUM. 75 



1869. (Exsicc. n. 15511.) — In foliage singularly resembling our com- 

 mon Betony, — the Xlptovins of Alexander Trallianus, — whence I have 

 derived the specific name.* 



7. Salvia (DrymospJiace) umbraiica,n. sp. ; glanduloso-pilosa, caule 

 erecto simplici bipedali, foliis petiolatis e basi cordata hastato-triangu- 

 latis lobis basaliljus divergeutibus acutis plerumque brevibus crenato- 

 dentatis floralibus sensim miiioribus sumniis oblongis, racemis simpli- 

 cibus, verticillastris remotis 4-6-floris, pedicellis calyce duplo breviori- 

 bns, calycibus carapanulato-tubulosis glanduloso-pilosis 4 lin. longis 

 labio antico parum longiore, coroUfe subsigmoidepe pubescentis pulchre 

 ceeralese infenie pallidse et Cceruleo-striatse tubo seqiiali parum exserto 

 intus piloso-annulato fauce ampliato labio superiore fornicato apice 

 emarginato lobis lateralibus i-otundatis, staminibus corollse circiter 

 sequilongis loculo antherarum antico alteri subconfoi'mi lineari sed cur- 

 vulo atque minore copiose pollinifero, stylo exserto stigraatibus inaequa- 

 libus postico longiore dilatato. — Prope Jehol, sub umbra scopulorum 

 crescentera, invenit rev. pat. A. David, miss, apost. (Exsicc. n. 

 14711.) 



A very close neighbour of S. glutlnosa, L., which it much resembles ia 

 the herbarium. The reduced anther-cell seems quite as fertile as the 

 normal one. There is an approach to this in S. Nipponica, Miq. ! in 

 which the cell is, however, still a good deal deformed. In that species 

 (which from the dried specimens seems to have white or cream-coloured 

 flowers) the upper lip of the corolla is continuous in almost a straight 

 line with the tube. According to the plate (Illustr. Himal. Bot. 

 t. 75*) the curvature is very slight too in S. Jtians, Royle, which agrees 

 with M. David's plant in its blue flowers. 



8. Monolophus coenobialis, n. sp. ; erectus, gracilis, 6-12-ponicaris, 

 foliis vix petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis attenuato-acuminatis glabcrri- 



* Tlie Kfffrpov of Pioscorides is usually supposed to be identical with Beto- 

 nica officinalis, L. Thus Pliny (Ilist. Nat. vol. xxv. p. 8), " Vettones in His- 

 pania inyeuere earn, quse vettonica dioitur in Gallia, in Italia autem serratula, 

 a Greecis cestron aut psychrotrophon ;" so also Macer Floridus (De Virib. 

 Herb. vol. xi. p. 1, ed. Clioulaut), " Betonicani soliti sunt cestron dicei-e 

 Gra-'ci ;" and Cajsalpinus (De Plant, vol. xi. p. 21), " Dioscorides cestron vocat 

 et psychrotrophon, quia locis frigidis invenitur." This is also the opinion of 

 Schneider, Sprengel (Hist. Rei Herb. vol. i. p. 179), Forcellini in his noble 

 Lexicon, and Liddell and Scott. Billerbeck, however, (Flor. Class, p. 153 ; 

 Lips. 1824) considers lliat the Greek plant is B. alopecuros, L. ; whilst 

 Fraas (Synope. Fl. Class, p. 175, Miinchen, 1815) is disposed to refer it to 

 l^ideritis Syriaca, L. 



