LABIAT A: IOI 
8. MICROMERIA, Benth. 
Cymes few-flowered, on short stalks, unilateral; calyx 
cylindrical, 5-toothed, not 2-lipped; corolla 2-lipped, 
lower lip of three nearly equal lobes; stamens 4. 
M. Piperella, Benth. (Pl. 101); cymes 1-3-flowered, 
flowers red-purple, corolla with a very long slender tube, 
leaves small, ovate, sessile, glabrous ; Piedmontese Alps. 
M. greca, Benth.; cymes 2-10-flowered, flowers pink, 
lower leaves oval, upper linear-lanceolate ; Ticino, very 
rare. 
Go OALVIA, E. 
Cymes collected into a leafy spike or raceme; calyx 
and corolla 2-lipped; stamens 2, connective long and 
slender, bearing at its two ends one perfect and one 
abortive anther-lobe; plant often very fragrant. The 
peculiar structure of the stamens in the various species 
of Sage is a remarkable contrivance for cross-pollination. 
An insect entering the flower in search of honey strikes 
against the barren anther-lobe, and thus empties on to its 
back the pollen out of the perfect lobe. At this time the 
style is very short and the stigmas then immature (pro- 
terandrous). At a later period the style has elongated 
greatly, and the two stigmas project out of the corolla. 
When the insect visits another flower in this condition, 
the pollen which was lodged on its back is caught by and 
deposited on the projecting stigma, and the ovules are 
thus cross-fertilised. 
A. Flowers yellow:— S. glutinosa, L.; cymes 2-3- 
flowered, flowers very large, dirty yellow, upper lip of 
calyx entire, leaves cordate-hastate, pubescent; moun- 
tain woods, frequent. 
