826 Labiatae. 
below, naked above the middle, ending in a panicle often 50 cm 
long and 40 cm broad. Lower leaves membranous, more or less 
papillose-pubescent, ovate, 6—35 cm long, truncate or cordate at 
the base, eroded-dentate or sinuate-lobed; stem-leaves _ sessile, 
triangular-ovate, truncate at the base. Floral leaves triangular-ovate, 
abruptly short-acuminate, the lower longer than the calyx, the upper 
broader than long, shorter than the calyx; whorls 6—4-flowered, 
distant; calyx viscid-pubescent, campanulate, 9 mm long in flower, 
very slightly enlarged in fruit, almost truncate, teeth very short 
and broad, spiny-mucronulate; corolla bluish, four times as long as 
the calyx; with falcate upper and broad lower lips, and long-exserted 
stamens and style. — Flow. March. 
M. ma. Ramle, in sandy places (Muschler). 
Also known from Syria and Mesopotamia. 
1158. (5.) Salvia Verbenaca L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 35. — 
var. vernalis Boiss. Voy. Bot. Esp. (1845), p. 484. — Flor. Or. IV, 
p.629. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., ‘p.121 no. 824. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. @Eg., p. 267. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. 
Flor. Marmaric., p.662 no. 244. — Rchbch. Icon. XVIII, tab. 703. 
— Salvia Sibthorpii Heldr. Flor. Pelop., no. 37 not of Flor. Graee. 
—- Salvia Spielmanniana MB. Flor. Taur. Cauc. I, p.21. — Salvia 
disermas Smith Prodrom. not of Linn. — Salvia laciniata Willd. 
Enum. Plant. Hort. Berol. II, p. 613. — A perennial plant, 30—50 em 
high, or more, pubescent, villous above; stems ascending, simple 
or sparingly branched. Leaves ovate to oblong, 3—10 em long, 
crenate, wrinkled, glabrescent, rounded or cordate at the base, undivided, 
lobed, or pinnatifid, the lowest ones petioled, 10O—20 cm long, the 
upper one sessile. Floral leaves minute, round-cordate, acuminate, at 
length reflexed; whorls 6—4-flowered, remote; calyx 5—6 mm long 
in flower, 8 mm and nodding in fruit, often coloured, the upper 
lip half-orbicular; corolla blue, 1—1,2 cm long, upper lip somewhat 
incurved. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Ken4’is; Mariut; Alexandria-West 
and -Nast. 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
1159. (6.) Salvia lanigera Poir. Encyclop. Supplem. V (1817), 
p. 49. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.121 no,825. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 662 no. 244. Aschers. Flor. 
Rhinocol., p. 802 no. 199. — Salvia controversa Ten. _ Syl. Flor. Neap., 
p. 18. — Salvia clandestina i in herb. not in Spee. Plant. — Sibth, Flor. 
Graec., tab. 24. — Salvia rugosissina Zuce. Acad, Monae. III, p. 244 
tab. fine peiornie| plant, 20—35 em high, or sometimes some- 
