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Fig. 29o. 



LABIATE. (MIKT FAMILY.) 



Fig. 396. 



Salvia Syriaca. Tenuinal whorl of Salvia Monlbretii. 



long panicle. Leaves yelloicish green, bullate-wrinkled, j^j?/&e7"2<Ze?2#^ 

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

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

 cels; whorls G-2-flowered, distant; calyx .008 long, obscurely bilabi- 

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

 prickly-mucronate ; corolla white, hardly twice as long as calyx — April 

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

 interior plains. 



20. S. Monlljrclii, Bth. % .5 to .6, rootstock woody, thick- 

 ened; stems erect, tomentose below, ending in a mscid-mllous raceme, sim- 

 2)le or sparingly stiff-lrancJied near tase. Lowest leaves crowded, wool- 

 ly, gr^nish at upper canescent at lower surface, ollong-spathulate or 

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

 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 calyx-tiibe, canescent and striate on their outer aspect; calyx .013 

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

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

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

 northward. 



21. §. §i>iiiO£a, L. 2J! .3 to .4, xiscid-'piihescent, especially above; 

 stem ending in a pyramidal panicle, .2 to .3 broad. Leaves appressed- 

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

 rounded at base, eroded-dentate, occasionally someichat Idhed, the lower 

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

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

 calyx; wiiorls 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 — AjDril to June — Sinai to 

 Haurun, Damascus, Aleppo, and eastward. 



22. S. Palae§tiiia, Bth. % Kharneh. .3 to .8, strigose; stem 

 ending in a panicle .2 to .4 broad. Leaves rugose, greenish to canes- 

 cent, tlie lower long-petioled, oblong, .1 to .2 long, oftenpinnatisect or 



