Salvia. 827 
what more, appressed-canescent, and more or less hispid with longer 
hairs; stems numerous, simple or branching from near the base. 
Leaves oblong in outline, pinnatisect into linear, bullate-wrinkled, 
obtuse, crenulate lobes, set at right angles to the axis, with revolute 
margins. Floral leaves ovate-orbicular, acute; whorls 6—8-flowered, 
rather remote or approximated; calyx fleecy, 5 mm long in flower, 
8 mm in fruit; corolla reddish, twice to thrice as long as the calyx, 
upper lip somewhat falcate. — Flow. February to April. 
_M.ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Ras-el-Kenais; Mariut; Montaza; 
Alexandria-West and -Hast; Macdara, Abukir. — M. p. Damietta; 
Rosetta; el-“Arish. — D. a. sept. Ma’sara; Helwan, in the desert, 
Wady-Dugla; Suez; Galala. 
Local name: meryamiye (Forsk.); ’areym (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Spain, Italy, Arabia, 
Syria and Mesopotamia. 
1160. (7.) Salvia aegyptiaca L. Spec. Plant. I (1783), p.33. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 631. — Jacq. Hort. Vindob. [, tab. 108. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d@Eg., p. 121 no. 826. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 770. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocoi., 
p- 802 no. 200. — Thymus hirtus Viv. Flor. Libye., p. 30 tab. 44. 
— Thymus syrticus Spreng. Syst. H, p. 697. — An undershrub 
1—2 m high, canescent-puberulent, intricately branched, branches stiff, 
almost spinescent. Leaves few, oblong-linear to linear, tapering to a 
short petiole, 1—2 cm long, 2—3 mm broad, the upper ones sessile, 
all bullate-crenate, revolute-margined, obtuse. Floral leaves minute, 
persistent, ovate, acute; whorls 2—4-flowered; calyx pedicelled, 
nodding, 3 mm long, oblong, pubescent to hirsute, the upper lip 
shorter with a concave, 2-grooved back, and a somewhat incurved tip 
furnished with 3, minute, connivent teeth, the teeth of the lower lip 
triangular-lanceolate, subulate at the tip; corolla glabrous, scarcely 
once and a half as long as the calyx. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria-West and -Hast; Mandara; 
Abukir. — M. p. Kl-Grady. — D.i. Salihiga; Ismailia. — D. a. sept. 
Nefish; Serapeum; Suez; all the Wadies of the Arabian desert. — 
D. a. mer. Qoseyr. 
Local name: raal; shegeret-el-ghazil (Forsk., Del.). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania; Nubia, 
Arabia, Afghanistan and India. 
var. pumila (Benth.) Aschers. and Schweinf. in Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg. (1887), p.121 no. 826. — Salvia deserti 
Aschers. and Schweinf. in Schweinf. Beitrag z. Flor. von Aethiop., 
