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8. Acanthomintha Gray. 



Calyx tubular 13-nerved, naked in the throat. 

 Upper lip 3-dentate. Lower lip 2-parted, 

 shorter. Teeth spinulose. Corolla tube ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, naked. Upper lip curved, 

 entire or 2-lobed. Lower lip 3-lobed. Upper 

 pair of stamens sterile and shorter. Lower 

 pair ascending. Anthers 2-celled. Cells 

 divaricate. Bracts thorny. 0. 



1. A. LANCEOLATA Curran. Flowers rose- 

 color. Niles. Summer. 



9, Sphacele Benth. 



Calyx campanulate, enlarged in fruit, 10- 

 nerved, reticulate-veined, 5-dentate. Tube of 

 the corolla wide, with a hairy ring near its 

 base, the 5 lobes of the limb obtuse . Lower 

 lobes the longer ones. Stamens ascending. 

 Cells of the anthers divergent. . Flowers 

 large, pale. 



1. S. CALYCINA Benth, San Mateo. Sum- 

 mer. 



10. SalviaL- SAGE. 



Calyx 2-labiate. Corolla ringent. Stamens 

 2, parallel. Anthers separated by a connective, 

 shaped like a branch of the filament; only the 

 posterior end of it bearing an anther cell. 



1. S. CARDUACEA Benth. White-woolly with 

 cobwebby hair ; radical leaves sinuate to 



