LAMIACEAE. 379 



Waste places and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great 

 Bahama to Andros, The Caicos, Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda ; Florida ; West 

 Indies ; continental tropical America. Consists of many races differing in pubescence, 

 the corolla blue to white. Apparently referred to S. tenella Sw. by Hitchcock. 

 Erroneously called CATNEP. Listed by Dolley as Nepeta Cataria L. SMALL WHITE 

 SAGE. 



3. Salvia coccinea Juss. in Murray, C'omm. Gott. 1: 86. 1778. 



Annual, softly pubescent; stems erect, 3-7 dm. tall, simple or sparingly 

 branched. Leaves ovate or deltoid-ovate, 3-6 cm. long, obtuse or acutish, 

 crenate-serrate, truncate to subcordate at the base; panicles 5-20 cm. long; 

 pedicels 2-6 mm. long, slender; calyx minutely pubescent, 10-12 mm. long, its 

 tube many-ribbed, the upper lip reniform, abruptly pointed, the lower lobes 

 ovate-apiculate ; corolla deep scarlet, 2-2.5 cm. long, puberulent, the tube con- 

 tracted above the base, then gradually enlarged, the lower lip 7-8 mm. broad, 

 merely notched at the apex; nutlets 2.5 mm. long, slightly variegated. 



Waste places, Watling's Island, at Cockburn Town : Bermuda ; South Carolina 

 to Florida, Texas and Mexico ; West Indies and continental tropical America. SCAR- 

 LET SAGE. COUNTRY BELLE. 



6. MICROMERIA Benth. Bot. Eeg. 15: under pi. 1282. 1829. 



Shrubs or perennial herbs, with entire or dentate leaves and small axillary 

 clustered or solitary flowers. Calyx tubular, its tube mostly 13-ribbed, its 5 

 lobes nearly equal. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip erect, often very small; lower 

 lip 3-lobed, the middle lobe commonly emarginate. Stamens 4, converging 

 under the upper corolla-lip; anthers 2-celled, the sacs divergent. Ovary 4- 

 carpellary; style basal. Nutlets smooth, basally attached. [Greek, referring 

 to the small flowers.] Sixty species or more, natives of temperate and tropical 

 regions. Type species: Sab^atia corymbosa Moench. 



1. Micromeria Brownei (Sw.) Benth. Lab. 372. 1834. 



Thymus Brownei Sw. Prodr. 89. 1788. 



Satureia Brownei Briquet, in E. & P. Nat. Pflanzf. 4 3a : 300. 1896. 



Perennial, glabrous or nearly so; stems branched near the base, very 

 slender, the branches prostrate and creeping, 14 dm. long. Leaves broadly 

 ovate or orbicular, 5-12 mm. broad, crenulate, obtuse or acute at the apex, 

 truncate or subcordate at the base, the petioles 1-6 mm. long; flowers mostly 

 solitary in the axils; pedicels filiform, 3-12 mm. long, as long as the upper 

 leaves or longer; calyx narrowly turbinate, 4-5 mm. long, its triangular-ovate, 

 ciliolate lobes about one-half as long as the tube; corolla white, 7-8 mm. long, 

 its upper lip ovate, sometimes emarginate. 



Moist soils at fresh-water holes', Abaco and Great Bahama southward to Crooked 

 Island : Florida ; Jamaica. Recorded by Dolley as Nepeta coerulea L. WEST INDIAN 

 THYME. 



7. HYPTIS Jacq. Coll. 1: 101. 1786. 

 [MESOSPHAERUM P. Br. Hist. Jam. 257. Hyponym. 1756.] 



Herbs, mostly erect and branched, the leaves usually dentate, the flowers 

 variously clustered. Calyx tubular, ovoid or campanulate, equally 5-lobed, the 

 lobes acute or aristate. Corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip erect or spreading, the 

 lower saccate and drooping. Stamens 4, declined, all antheriferous, the fila- 

 ments distinct, the anthers 2-celled. Ovary 4-carpellary ; style basal. Nutlets 



