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latius campanulatus cum dentium aristis 6-7 lin. longus, dentibus 
latioribus aristato-mucronatis. Corolle tubus 6-7 lin. longus, intus 
supra medium annulo pilosulo munitus, labia 25-3 lin. longa ‘lobis sub- 
areola minima insidentes, a dorso compress, obovoide, 3 lin. long 
aivecche: brunnee, humefactz valde mucilaginose. DPolakia paradoxa, 
Stapf ex Brig. in Engl. & Prantl, Natiirl. _Pflanzent iv. 3: A. p. 260. 
Salvia aristata, Auch, ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 270: Bunge, 
Labiat. Pers. (in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. = t xxi. no. 1), p. 41 ; Boiss. 
Ht, Or. iv. p. G17; Brig. 1. ¢. 275. Owerini, Trautv. in Act. 
Hort. Petrop. ii. p. 479. S. ate Hausskn, & Briq. in Engl. & 
x rantl, Natirl. Pflanzenf. iv. 3. A. p. 286. 
ORIENT : “ine near Urmiah, Owerin; between Zenjan and 
Sultanieh, Bunge; Hamadan, Polak & Pichler ; Irak, at Girdu and 
Mowdere near Bisl anaked Strauss ; ; without precise locality, Aucher, 
1563. scien Mendeli, Noé 
doubtful entham, i n describin bg it from very ences material, 
section Husphace or in the section #thiopis. Bunge referred it also 
to Salvia, but based on it a new section Physosphace. Trautvetter, 
who saw only the top of a panicle, described it as a new species of 
Salvia, adding “habitu peculiari a Salviis nostratibus omnibus longe 
recedentibus et procul dubio generis sectionem propriam exhibentis.” 
Boissier has it in the section Mthiopis ; Briquet in the section Gon- 
grosphace of Salvia under two na mes, and besides as a distinct, 
although provisional, aa emer the position of which, he says, 
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cannot be cleared up before the subgenera Viasala, Allagospadonopsis 
and Covola have been avis. hen I described it as Polakia in 
885, I did not know Aucher’s S. aristata, of which I saw a fruiting 
panicle at Kew several years later. The material at Kew is hardly 
if it should be, as is very ‘Tikel ely, reduced to Salvia. The specimen 
rawn represents the gynodynamic state and has been fein from a 
plant collected by Mr. Th. Strauss near Sultanabad.— O. Sta 
Fig. 1, calyx, cut open, and pistil; 2, say cut open; 3, an anticous stamen; 
4, a mature nutlet ; 5, cross section of the s 
