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8. HYPTIS, Jacq. 



Calyx ovate, bell-shaped or tubular, with 5 acute teeth. 

 Corolla-tube cylindrical or shortly ventricose ; upper lip of 4 

 flat, erect or spreading lobes; lower saccate, during flowering ab- 

 ruptly deflexed, entire or emarginate, contracted at base and 

 callous-margined, or on each side toothed. Stamens 4 ; fila- 

 ments toothless. Style shortly 2-fld or entire. Nuts smooth 

 or dotted, rarely winged. — DC. Prod. xii. ^9. 127. 



A large, cliiefly American, genus of herbs or shrubs. — H . peciinata^ Poit., 

 a widely-dispersed species, occurs near Natal. 



9. MENTHA, Linn. 



Calyx bell-shaped or tubular, 5-toothed, equal or nearly so, 

 nude or villous within. Corolla-tube included ; limb subcqual, 

 4-fid, the upper lip rather broader, emarginate. Stamens 4, 

 equal, erect, distant ; filaments glabrous, nude ; anthers 2- 

 celled, cells parallel. Style shortly 2-fid. Nuts smooth. — 

 DC. Prod. xii. p. 164. 



Hei'bs, often subaquatic. Inflorescence in dense axillar}', spiked or capi- 

 tate, false whorls. Flowers small. Foliage pungently aromatic. "Mints" 

 of the gardens. — A few occur at the Cape. 



10. MICROMERIA, Benth. 



Calyx tubular, 13- or rarely 15-striate, 5-toothed ; teeth 

 subequal, straight, or slightly in 2 lips, the throat mostly vil- 

 lous. Corolla-tube straight, nude within, mostly shorter than 

 the calyx ; limb 2-lipped, the upper lip erect, flattish, entire or 

 emarginate, lower spreading, of 3 flat subequal lobes. Sta- 

 mens 4, didynamous, lower longer, ascending, arched, shorter 

 than the corolla or exserted, divergent at apex ; anthers 2- 

 celled, the cells parallel or divergent, often oblique. Style 

 equally or unequally 2-fid. Nuts smooth. — DC. Prod. xii. p". 

 212. 



Small undershrubs or herbs. Inflorescence of axillary or spiked false- 

 whorls. Flowers small. — M. hijiora, Benth., a small, much-branched and 

 tufted species, occurs in our Eastern district. 



11. SALVIA, Linn. 



Calyx 2-labiate ; the upper lip entire or 3-toothed ; lower 

 2-fid ; throat nude. Corolla with short or long tube, equal or 

 swelling upwards, 2-lipped ; upper lip erect or rarel}^ spread- 

 ing, straight or falcate, entire or emarginate ; lower spreading, 

 3-lobed, the middle lobe broader. Stamens 2 (the upper pair 

 absent or rudimentary), inserted within the throat of corolla ; 

 filament short, articulated with l1ic anther, and mostly pro- 



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