382 ON SEEDLINGS 



Cotyledons. Lamina 3-4 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, triangular, 

 emarginate, cordate at the base, pubescent, very obscurely nerved, 

 not very persistent; petiole slender, 1-1 '5 cm. long, '5 mm. thick, 

 finely pubescent. 



Stem succulent, slightly pubescent, rounded, light green ; inter- 

 nodes about 1 cm. long, '75 mm. thick, or altogether undeveloped 

 in the open ground in the seedling stage. 



Leaves radical and cauline, simple, opposite, decussate, exstipu- 

 late, petiolate, rugose, pubescent or subscabrous from short white 

 hairs ; petioles channelled above, convex beneath, pubescent. 



First pair linear-oblong, obtuse, pinnatifid ; lobes shallow, 

 roundish-triangular. 



Second pair oblong, obtuse, pinnatifid with shortly oblong, obtuse 

 lobes. 



Salvia Irian gularis, Thunbg. 



Primary root tapering downwards with several long, strong 

 lateral rootlets. 



Sypocotyl erect, terete, pubescent, 4-6 mm. long, light green 

 or colourless. 



Cotyledons very similar to those of S. Columbariae, but glabrous 

 and indistinctly pinnatinerved, like the leaves in their venation ; 

 petioles 5-6 mm. long. 



Stem short, erect, herbaceous, pubescent, primary internodes but 

 slightly developed. 



First leaves ovate, obtuse, ciliated, simple, crenate, petiolate, 

 thickly pubescent, light green, distinctly pinnatinerved. 



Salvia hispanica, L. 



Hypocotyl as in S. triangularis, 8-12 mm. long. 



Cotyledons widely triangular, emarginate, cordate at the base, 

 shortly petiolate, minutely pubescent, light green, indistinctly tri 

 nerved. 



Stem erect, minutely pubescent. 



Salvia argentea, L. 



Fruit consisting of four dorsally compressed, almost triangular 

 nutlets. 



Seed conforming in shape to the nutlet, exalbuminous, 2-5-3 

 mm. long ; testa smooth, membranous ; hilum inconspicuous. 



Embryo straight, filling the whole of the seed, colourless ; coty- 

 ledons broadly oblong, plano-convex, obtuse, about the same width 



