XCVI. LABIATA. 805 
8. HYPTIS, Jacq. 
Calyx ovate, bell-shaped or tubular, with 5 acute teeth. 
Corolla-tube cylindrical or shortly ventricose ; upper lip of 4 
flat, erect or spreading lobes; lower saccate, during flowering ab- 
ruptly deflexed, entire or emarginate, contracted at base and 
callous-margined, or on each side toothed. Stamens 4; fila- 
ments toothless. Style shortly 2-fid or entire. Nuts smooth 
or dotted, rarely winged.—DC. Prod. xii. p. 127. 
A large, chiefly American, genus of herbs or shrubs. —ZZ . pectinata, Poit., 
a widely-dispersed species, occurs near Natal. 
9. MENTHA, Linn. 
Calyx bell-shaped or tubular, 5-toothed, equal or nearly so, 
nude or villous within. Corolla-tube included ; limb subequal, 
4-fid, the upper lip rather broader, emarginate. Stamens 4, 
equal, erect, distant ; filaments elabrous, nude; anthers 2. 
celled, cells parallel. Style shortly 2-fid. Nuts smooth.— 
DC. Prod. xii. p. 164. 
Herbs, often subaquatic. Inflorescence in dense axillary, spiked or capi- 
tate, false whorls. Flowers small. Foliage pungently aromatic. ‘ Mints” 
of the gardens.—A few occur at the Cape. 
10. MICROMERIA, Benth. 
Calyx tubular, 18- or rarely 15-striate, 5-toothed ; teeth 
subequal, straight, or slightly in 2 lips, the throat mostly vil- 
lous. Corolla-tube straight, nude within, mostly shorter than 
the calyx; limb 2-lipped, “the upper lip erect, flattish, entire or 
emarginate, lower spreading, of 3 flat subequal lobes. Sta- 
mens 4, didynamous, lower longer, ascending, arched, shorter 
than the corolla or exserted, divergent at apex; anthers 2- 
celled, the cells parallel or divergent, often oblique. Style 
equally or unequally 2-fid. Nuts “smooth.—DC, Prod. xii. p- 
212. 
Small undershrubs or herbs. Inflorescence of axillary or spiked false- 
whorls. Flowers small.— WM. biflora, Benth., a small, much-branched and 
tufted species, occurs in our Eastern district. 
11. SALVIA, Linn. 
Calyx 2-labiate; the upper lip entire or 3-toothed ; lower 
2-fid; throat nude. Corolla with short or long tube, equal or 
swelling upwards, 2-lipped ; upper lip erect or rarely spread- 
ing, § straight or faleate, entire or emarginate ; lower spreading, 
3-lobed, the middle lobe broader. Stamens 2 (the upper pair 
absent or rudimentary), inserted within the throat of corolla ; 
filament short, articulated with the anther, and mostly pro- 
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