370 SYSTEMATIC BOTANY 



SALVIA SPLENDENS, Sell, in gardens. The calyx is 

 red as well as the corolla. 



Two other species, s. COCCINEA, V., and a white 

 variety of it, and S. OFFICINALIS, L., the Sage, are 

 also grown. The stamens of SALVIA are peculiar in 

 that the filament is very short, and one-half only of 

 the anther is developed and borne forwards on a long 

 branch of the connective, the other branch with no 

 proper anther lobe extending backwards in a straight 

 line with the first (see p. 221). 



LEONOTIS NEPET^FOLIA, Br., a common weed by 

 road-sides. Its gorgeous yellowish-red flowers, larger 

 even than those of SALVIA SPLENDENS, aggregated in 

 globuse clusters, make it a very handsome plant. 



There are also several other species of LEUCAS, 

 common in different parts, e. g. on the plains : L. 

 LINIFOLIA, Spr., a way side weed with narrow leaves, 

 an very oblique mouth to the calyx, like L. ASPERA 

 Spr. ; L. ZEYLANICA, Br. and L. DIFFUSA, Benth. 

 which differ from the former in the calyx being 

 straight and even and in the whorl of flowers being 

 terminal only ; and on the hills, L. * HELIANTHE- 

 MIFOLIA, Desf., a small plant growing in tufts of 

 about a foot high ; L. * ROSMARINIFOLIA, Benth., a 

 flat-topped bush with bluishgreen leaves and fruiting 

 clusters on long stalks ; L. v VESTITA, Benth., with 

 brown, hairy upper lip ; L. * LANCE^EFOLIA, Desf., 

 and others. In the sholas we find, * SCUTELARIA 

 VIOLACE^E, Heyne, the Scull-cap, the calyx of which 

 forms in fruit a curious sort of box with a flat back, 

 and on the open moors * BRUNELLA VULGARIS, L. 

 the Self-heal. 



