712 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



ovate; pedicels '12 in. long, puberiilous. Corolla -2 in. long. Nutlets 

 ■02 in., pale-bro'^Ti, smooth. 



Peeak : Thaiping, Biclley 11912 ! — Disteib. Java ; Assam. 



This species is not included in the ' Flora of British India.' It was obtained by the 

 late Mr. C. B. Clarke, at Dibrugarh in Upper Assam, subsequent to the appearance of 

 the account of the Indian species of this family by Sir Joseph Hooker. 



10. Salvia, Linn. 



Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs. Flotvers small, medium, or large 

 and showy ; whorls usually in racemes or spikes ; bracts small or large, 

 sometimes coloured. Calyx campanulate or tubular, 2-lipped ; mouth 

 naked; upper lip entire or 3-toothed; lower lip 2-fid. Corolla 2-lipped; 

 tube naked or annulate within ; lower lip 3-lobed, the central lobe 

 usually wider than the lateral, entire or emarginate ; upper Hp erect. 

 Stamens 2, the upper pair imperfect, represented by small staminodes 

 or obsolete ; filaments short, articulating with a slender connective, and 

 sometimes produced beyond the joint ; connective linear, transverse, 

 with an upper ascending arm which bears a linear fertile anther- 

 cell, and a lower straight or defiexed arm bearing a cell which may be 

 empty or fertile or bearing no cell. Disk usually enlarged anteriorly. 

 Style shortly 2-fid ; the lobes usually subulate, equal or the lower 

 larger, sometimes flattened. Nutlets ovoid, somewhat triquetrous, 

 smooth. — Disteib. Species about 450, cosmopolitan. 



Flowers rather large, showy ; corolla-tube long, far exserted . . 1. S. coccinea. 



Flowers minute, inconspicuous ; corolla-tube short, not exserted . . 2. S. pleheia. 



1. Salvia cocclnea, Juss. exMurr. in Comm. Gott. I. 86, t. 1 (1778). 

 A slender herb, 1 to 3 ft. high. Stems numerous, 4-angled, ascending, 

 often branched, finely pubescent. Leaves opposite, membranous, 

 glabrous above, finely white-pubescent beneath, dark-green, ovate- or 

 cordate-acute, crenate except the base ; 1 to 1-5 in. long, -75 to 1 in. 

 wide ; petiole slender, finely puberulous, -6 to -8 in. long. Flowers in 

 6- to 10-flowered remote whorls disposed in terminal racemes ; bracts 

 ovate-acuminate, deciduous ; pedicels -12 in. long, slender, puberulous. 

 Calyx -25 in. (in fruit -35 in.) long, pubescent, striate, narrowly cam- 

 panulate ; upper lip entire, obtuse ; lower 2-fid ; the lobes acute. 

 Corolla "75 in. long, red ; tube straight, much exserted, widened 

 upwards ; lower lip spreading, 3-fid ; upper lip short, erect. Nutlets 

 •08 in. long, very narrowly oblong, smooth, bro\\Ti, shining. Linn, 

 f. Suppl. 88 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. XII. 343 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. lY. 

 656. 'S'. Gerardiana, Benth. in AVall. Cat. 2150. 



