474 XCVlil. LAlilAT.E. 



the lower arm straight or deflexed, bearing a fertile or empty cell or 

 naked ; upper stamens represented by 2 small staminodes or obsolete. 

 Disk usually enlarged in front. Ovary 4-partite ; style shortly 2-tid, 

 the lobes subulate, equal or the lower longer, sometimes flattened. 

 Fruit of 4 ovoid somewhat triquetrous smooth nutlets ; basal scar 

 small. — DiSTRiB. Cosmopolitan ; species 450. 



An erect herb ; leaves 2-4 in. long ; upper lip of calyx entire ... 1. S. 2jleheia. 

 A low straggling undershrub ; leaves less than 2 in. long ; upper 



lip of caljx 3-toothed 2. 8. (egyptiaea. 



1. Salvia plebeia, B. Br. Frodr, (1810) p. 501. An erect herb 

 6-20 in. high ; stems hoary-pubescent, obtusely quadrangular, grooved. 

 Leaves 2-4 by |-1| in., oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, irregularly 

 crenate, sparsely hairy or nearly glabrous, base usually acute, often 

 decurrent into the petiole ; petioles 1-2 in. long. Flowers in paniculate 

 (often somewhat compactly arranged) interrupted pubescent spicate 

 racemes ; floral leaves jL in. long, broadly ovate, subacute, shortly petio- 

 late ; bracts small, linear-spathulate. Calyx pedicellate, hairy, ,-L-g in. 

 long in flower, \-\ in. long in fruit, 2-lipped ; upper lip obtuse, entire, 

 shorter than the lower, reflexed ; lower lip 2-fld, the lobes triangular, 

 acute or subacute. Corolla \ in. long ; tube \ in. long ; upper lip 

 oblong, obtuse ; lower lip 3-lobed, the middle lobe n^uch larger than 

 the short obtuse lateral ones. Nutlets Jj in. long, ovoid, the inner face 

 slightly angular, the dorsal face rounded", smooth, browu. Fl. B. I. \. 4, 

 p. (555; Ualz. & Gibs. p. 209; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 302; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 859; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, 

 part 2, p. 451. — Flowers: ISept.-Feb. 



KoNKAN : Law ! ; island of Karanja, Bahell tf- Gibson. Deccan : Kliandala, 

 Dalzell <^- Gibson; Poona, Cooke \, J. G. Woodrowl; Kolvaa (Mawal taluka), Bhim.l; 

 IVI.ihableshvvar, in the ravine below tiie cemetery, Coo/ce\ Sind: Stocks]— J)isTHiii. 

 Througliout India ; China, Malay Islands, Australia. 



2. Salvia segyptiaca, Linn. S_p. PI. (1753) p. 23. A low much- 

 branclud straggling undershrub ; branches divaricate, rigid, hairy, 

 quadrangular. Leaves variable, |-1| by ^-^ in-, subsessile or shortly 

 petiolale, linear- lanceolate, acute, rigid, crenate, much wrinkled, hairy ; 

 nerves and veins prominent. Flowers in long racemes ; wliorls 2-4- 

 flowered, distant ; floral leaves small, ovate-lanceolate. Calyx in flower 

 i— jl in. long, glandular-hairy, in fruit twice as long, nodding, pedi- 

 cellate ; upper lip with 3 short connivent acute teeth ; lower lip with 

 2 lanceolate acute lobes. Corolla -J in. long ; tube annulate within ; 

 upper lip oblong, subquadrate, notched ; lower lip 3-lobed, the middle 

 lobe emarginate, larger than the obtuse lateral ones. Nutlets -^.j in. 

 long, oblong-ellipsoid, the inner face very slightly angular, the dorsal 

 face rounded, bluish-Mack, smcjoth. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p, ()5G ; Woodr. in 

 Jonrn. Bomb. Nafc. v. 12 (1899) p. 302 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. G, 

 part 2, p. 450. 



7>/L'c/^ without locality in Herb. Kew. ! SiNn : Boogta liills, Vicary !— Distrib. India 

 (Fanj/ib plains, Sind) ; Afglianistan, W. Asia, N. Africa to the Cape Verdo Islands. 



Var. piunila, Hook. f. l''l. B. I. v. 4 (1885) p. 65G. More scabrid 

 and his))id ; leaves very rigid and rugose ; calvx villous with long white 

 hairs. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 3G2 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. G, ])ai-t 2, p. -150. — Flowers : Nov. -Dec. Vkrn, Tukam. 



