LABIAT.E 383 



throughout, with rather large auricles, otherwise entire, lying the 

 broad way of the seed, with their faces to the axis ; radicle short, 

 terete, obtuse, lying close to the hilum. 



Seedling. 



Primary root stout, tapering, giving off lateral adventitious root- 

 lets. 



Hypocotyl terete, stout, fleshy, wrinkled transversely, 6-9 mm. 

 long, 1-5-2 mm. thick. 



Cotyledons rotund, obtuse, auricled at the base, rather fleshy, 

 glabrous, 1 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide; petiole subterete, channelled 

 above, coarsely pubescent, 1-2 cm. long. 



Stem undeveloped in the early stage of the plant. 



Leaves simple, radical, petiolate, rugose, woolly on both surfaces 

 with long white hairs, especially when young. 



First pair oblanceolate, obtuse, obtusely serrate, gradually taper- 

 ing at the base into a short petiole, nerves ascending. 



Second pair ovate-oblong, obtuse, crenate-serrate, with ascending 

 and much anastomosing veins. 



Sal via clandestina, L. 



Hypocotyl short, erect, finely pubescent, 4-5 mm. long, light 

 green or colourless. 



Cotyledons oblate or subreniform, entire, obtuse, with long peti- 

 oles, glabrous, dark green, trinerved. 



Stem short, erect, herbaceous, quadrangular ; 1st internode 

 2-2-5 mm. long ; 2nd shorter and so near the first that the second 

 pair of leaves appear as though they formed a whorl of four with 

 the first pair. 



Leaves cauline, ovate or oval, obtuse or subacute, crenate, some- 

 what wrinkled, pubescent, with amplexicaul petioles, dark green ; 

 midrib with numerous ascending veinlets. 



Salvia verbenacoides, Brot. (fig. 591). 



Primary root long, stout, fleshy, tapering, colourless, with a 

 few lateral rootlets, especially near the top. 



Hypocotyl very short, stout, fleshy, subterranean, colourless, 

 4'5 mm. long. 



Cotyledons roundly triangular, subtruncate or slightly notched 

 at the base, fleshy, petiolate ; lamina glabrous, 5 mm. long, 6 mm. 

 wide ; petiole hairy, convex on upper and under sides, 8 mm. long. 



Stem herbaceous, elongated when about to flower. 



