828 Labiatae. 
p. 280 no. 2015. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 632 partly not of 
Desene. — Salvia pumila Benth. Labiat., p. 726. — Jacquem. Voy., 
tab. 133. — A perennial plant, 10O—15 cm high, rarely somewhat 
more, canescent, branches simple or sparingly branched. Leaves 
few, ovate to oblong, petioled, obtuse, 1—1,5 cm long, 2—3 mm 
broad, the upper ones sessile, all bullate-crenate, revolute-margined, 
obtuse. Floral leaves lenticular or elliptical; whorls 8—4-flowered; 
calyx subsessile, hirsute-fleecy, ovate, 2 mm long, lips about equal; 
corolla glabrous, scarcely once and a half as long as the calyx. — 
Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Suez; Bir-Suez; foot of the Gebel Ataqa. — D. a. mer. 
Kene; Wady Etit; Wady Lekhuma. 
Local name: geheysh (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
1161. (8.) Salvia judaica Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Orient., Ser. I 
fasc. XI (1849) p.61. — Flor. Orient. IV, p.635. — A perennial 
plant, 60 cm to 1 m high or somewhat more, papillose-hairy; stems 
stiffly panicled above. Leaves bullate-wrinkled, petioled, crenate or 
dentate-lobed; the radical and sometimes the lower stem-leaves 
lyrate-pinnatipartite with ovate, abtuse leaflets, the lateral 1—2 pairs, 
sometimes confluent, the terminal one much larger, scarcely cordate; 
the cauline leaves sessile, cordate-ovate to oblong. Whorls 12—6- 
flowered, distant; pedicels shorter than the calyx; calyx red, 7 mm 
long, scabrous, the upper lip a little tho longer, with 3, triangular, 
mucronate, the lower with 2, subulate teeth; corolla violet, once 
and a half as long as the calyx, with included tube. — Flow. March. 
M. ma. Sidi-Gaber (Muschler). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
473. (10.) Rosmarinus Linn. 
Calyx campanulate, bilabiate, upper lip concave, minutely 3-den- 
tate, lower lip bifid, throat naked. Corolla-tube short- exserted, 
naked within, dilated at throat, upper lip erect, narrow, bifid, lower 
spreading, 3-lobed, the middle lobe largest, concave, pendulous. 
Fertile stamens 2, anterior, ascending under the upper lip, axserted, 
recurved, filaments continuous with connective, furnished below middle 
with a slender, short, reflexed tooth; anthers coherent in a linear 
cell fixed by its back to the tip of the connective. Style bifid. 
Nutlets ovate, smooth. — Shrubs with blue flowers in axillary racemes, 
A small genus, widely distributed throughout Southern Europe and the 
Mediterranean region. 
