680 



Fig. 295. 



LABIATJ5. (MINT FAMILY.) 



Fig. 29G. 



Salvia 



Terminal wlioil of Salvia ^Monlbretii. 



jynaca. 



long panicle. Leaves yellowish green, bullate-wrinkled, ^:)?t'5erw?en^, 

 ovate-oUomj to ovate-lanceolate, .03 to .1 long, cordate at base, crenate 

 and incised. Floral leaves ovate, acuminate, scarcely longer than pedi- 

 cels; wliorls 6-2-flowered, distant; calyx .008 long, obscurely bilabi- 

 ate, the upper three teeth triangular, the lower two lanceolate, all 

 prickly-mucronate ; corolla wliite, hardly tv/ice as long as calyx — April 

 to July — Fields and vineyards; mountains of coast range to 1000 m.; 

 interior plains. 



20. §. Moistbrelil, Bth. If .5 to .6, rootstock woody, thick- 

 ened; stems erect, tomentoseheloic, ending in a viscid-villous raceme, sim- 

 'pie or sjjaringly stiff-lranched near dase. Lowest leaves crowded, wool- 

 ly, greenish at upper canescent at lower surface, oNojig-sjJathidate or 

 oblanceolate, .04 to .1 long, .015 to .01 broad, entire or dentate, bullate- 

 wrinkled, tapering to a petiole ; stem-leaves oblong-linear to linear, 

 acute, sessile. Floral leaves as broad as long or broader, triangular- 

 ovate, more or less tapering, boat-shaped, forming an involucre shorter 

 than ccdyx-tube, canescent and striate on their outer asiject; ccdyx .013 

 long, canescent, striate, lips of equal length, the upper with 3, sliort:tri- 

 angular, the lower with 2, lanceolate teeth, all prickly-mucronate; co- 

 rolla violet, twice to thrice as long as calyx — May — Aintab, and 

 northward. 



21. §. §psai€J>ga, L. IJ! .3 to .4, viscid-^nilescent, especially above; 

 stem ending in a^;»?/;w?22VZ«2^i«?z2We, .2 to .3 broad. Leaves appressed- 

 pubescent, canescent to pale green, ovate, .08 to .2 long, subcordate or 

 rounded at base, eroded-dentate, occasionally somewhat loled, the lower 

 long-petioled, the upper somewhat clasping. Floral leaves pale green^ 

 round-ovate, cordate-clasping at base, acuminate, rather shorter than 

 calyx; whorls 6-2-flowered; calyx .012 long, tubular, growing in fruit, ; 

 bilabiate, with triangular-lanceolate, prickly -aristate teeth ; corolla 

 white, once and a half as long as calyx — April to June — Sinai to 

 Hauran, Damascus, Aleppo, and eastward. 



22. S. Palaestina, Bth. 1|: Kharneh. .3 to .8, strigose; stem 

 ending in a panicle .2 to A broad. Leaves rugose, greenish to canes- 

 cent, the lower long-petioled, oblong, .1 to .2 long, often]oinr^(itis^<^^ ^'i' 



