Salvia.] cii. labiate (baker). 457 



shrubs. . Leaves often rugose, simple or lobed or rarely compound. 

 Whorls of flowers usually distinct ; bracts small or large. Flowers often 

 large and brightly coloured. 

 Species 450, oosmopolitan. 



Shrub, with woody branches . . . . . I. S. somalensis. 



Perennial herbs. 

 Bracts large. 



Corolla three times the length of the calyx . . 2. <S. Fleckii. 



Corolla half as long again as the calyx . . 3. 5. Schimperi. 



Bracts small 



Upper lip of the calyx subentire . . . . 4c. S. nudicaulis. 



Upper lip of calyx tricuspidate. 



Stem leaves entire . . . . . . 6. S. nilotica. 



Stem leaves lyrate . . . . . . 6. S. Rochstetteri. 



1. S. somalensis^ Vatke in Linnwa, xliii. 93. A shrub 6-7 ft. 

 high, with virgate woody pubescent branches. Leaves oblanceolate- 

 oblong, sessile, subentire, rugose, acute or obtuse, 2J-3 in. long, finely 

 pubescent, narrowed gradually to the base. Whorls 6-8-flowered, 

 forming long lax simple racemose panicles ; bracts small, green ; pedicels 

 very short, densely hairy. Calyx J in. long ; tube densely hairy, funnel- 

 shaped ; lips shorter than the tube, upper shortly tridentate, lower with 

 two large lanceolate-deltoid teeth. Corolla blue, twice as long as the 

 calyx; lips short; upper ovate; lower broad, deflexed, 3-lobed. — Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 367. 



wile Iiand. British Somaliland: Serrut Mountains, near Maid, 4800-5800 ft., 

 midehrandt, 1419 ! 



2. S. Fleckii, GUrke in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 551. Stem her- 

 baceous, simple, erect, pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-oblong, 

 3-4 in. long, obtuse, subcordate at the base, crenate, bullate, hairy on 

 both surfaces. IJracts suborbicular or cordate-ovate, the lower j in. 

 long ; pedicels short. Calyx pubescent, J in. long ; teeth of the upper 

 lip very small and acute, of the lower lip acuminate. Corolla three 

 times the length of the calyx. 



Xiower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland. Fleck, 168a. Great 

 Namaqualand ; Oakuk-Stolzenfels, Pfeil, 78. 



3. S. Schimperi, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 282. A perennial herb, 

 with stout erect much-branched stems, clothed with white tomentum. 

 Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, petioled, obscurely crenulate, green 

 and slightly tomentose above, densely coated with white tomentum 

 beneath, the lower 4-5 in. long. Whorls few-flowered, arranged in 

 long lax racemose panicles ; bracts large, broadly ovate, cuspidate, 

 persistent, white with green veins. Calyx above \ in. long, pubescent; 

 tube funnel-shaped ; lips short ; teeth lanceolate-deltoid. Corolla white, 

 half as long again as the calyx ; upper lip \ in. long ; lower shorter, 

 deflexed.— A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 192; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 



