Salvia. 825 
1155. (2.) Salvia spinosa L. Mant. (1771), p.511. — Boiss. 
Flor. Or. IV, p.613. — Benth. in DC. Prodrom. XII, p.281. —- Jacq. 
{¢. rar. I, tab. 7. — A perennial plant, 30—40 cm high, sometimes 
somewhat more, viscid-pubescent, especially above; stem ending in 
a pyramidal panicle, 20—30 cm broad. Leaves appressed-pubescent, 
canescent to pale green, ovate, 8—20 cm long, subcordate or rounded 
at base, eroded-dentate, occasionally somewhat lobed, the lower 
long-petioled, the upper somewhat clasping. Floral leaves pale 
green, round-ovate, cordate-clasping at base, acuminate, rather shorter 
than calyx; whorls 6—2-flowered; calyx 1,2 em long, tubular, growing 
in fruit, bilabiate, with triangular-lanceolate, prickly-aristate teeth; 
corolla white, once and a half as long as the calyx. — Flow. March 
to April. 
M. ma. Between Mariut and Sidi Gaber; Alexandria-West and 
-Kast. — M. p. Hl-Arish. 
- Local name: tha’alaba ‘(Ascherson); ta’élbe (Schweinfurth, 
Muschler); na’eyme; shadjeret-el-gemal (Ascherson). 
Also known from Tripolitania, Arabia Petraea, Syria, Mesopotania and 
Persia. 
1156. (3.) Salvia palaestina Benth. Labiat. (1832—1836), 
p- 718. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.614. — Salvia sinaica Delile ex 
Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 615. — Salvia Sieberi Pres] Bot. Bemerk., 
p- 100. — A perennial plant, 30—80 em high, or sometimes somewhat 
more, strigose; stem ending in a panicle 20—40 cm broad. Leaves 
rugose, greenish to canescent, the lower long-petioled, oblong, 10 to 
20 cm long, often pinnatisect or lyrate at the base of the blade, 
the lateral segments small, confluent, and the terminal 8—10 cm 
long, 2—3 cm broad, crenate, often lobed or incised. Floral leaves 
membranous, often coloured, sparingly papillose-pubescent, orbicular 
to ovate, cuspidate, shorter than the calyx; calyx sparingly papillose, 
1,5 cm long, growing in fruit, bilabiate, with lanceolate prickly- 
mucronate teeth; corolla white, twice to thrice as long as the calyx, 
the upper liperather straight. — Flow. February to March. 
M. p. Rosetta, in sandy places, rare (Muschler). — D. a. sept. 
Galala. 
Local name: kharna. 
Also known from Palestine and Syria. 
1157. (4.) Salvia brachycalyx Boiss. Flor. Orient. IV (1879), 
p- 625. — Salvia indica L. partly. — Jacq. Ic. Vindob. I, tab. 78. — 
Bot. Mag., tab. 395. — A perennial robust plant, 80 em to 1,5 m 
high, or sometimes somewhat more, stem sparingly pubescent, leafy 
