Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 713 



Singapore: Kurzl Malacca: Maingayll&l\ 1778! Andaman s : 

 Port Blair, Kurz ! — Distrib. America, where indigenous ; Africa and 

 South-east Asia, where generally cultivated and often as an escape 

 from gardens. 



2. Salvia plebeia, E. Br. Prodr. 501 (1810). An erect herb, 6 to 

 18 in. high. Stems obtusely 4-angled, grooved, hoary-pubescent. 

 Leaves opposite, membranous, sparsely hirsute or nearly glabrous, 

 oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute ; base usually cuneate, entire ; 

 margin elsewhere irregularly crenate ; 2 to 4 in. long, -75 to 1'75 in. 

 wide ; petiole 1 to 2 in. long. Floioers in paniculate or subthyrsoid, 

 interrupted, pubescent, spicate racemes ; bracts small, linear-spathulate ; 

 pedicels short. Calyx -1 to -12 in. (in fruit -18 to -2 in.) long, cam- 

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

 acute or subacute. Corolla small, -15 in. long, whitish ; lower hp 

 3-lobed, the mid-lobe exceeding the lateral ones ; upper lip oblong, 

 obtuse. Nutlets "04 in. long, ovoid, smooth, brown. Benth. Lab. Gen. 

 & Sp. 309, and in DC. Prodr. XII. 355 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 970 ; 

 Hook.f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 655. S. brachiata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 145; 

 Wall. Cat. 2149. -^^^ 



Malacca : perhaps also in some oi/ the other provinces. — Distrib. 

 South-east Asia generally ; Australia. A very common Indian field- 

 weed, but in our area apparently extremely rare and perhaps only 

 introduced. 



11. Scutellaria, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Floioers often in long narrow racemes. 

 Calyx campanulate, 2-lipped ; lips closed in fruit, ultimately free to the 

 base, the upper at length deciduous, with a deciduous dorsal scale or 

 pouch, the lower persistent. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube long, usually 

 abruptly recurved beyond the calyx and ascending, dilated at the 

 throat, not annulate within ; lower lip wide, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes 

 small and often connate with upper lip, which is erect, galeate, entire 

 or notched. Stamens 4, didynamous, the upper pair shorter, ascending 

 under the hooded upper lip ; anthers connivent, ciliate, those of upper 

 stamens 2-celled, of lower 1-celled. Disk elongate. Style 2-fid ; 

 upper lobe very short. Nutlets subglobose, smooth, granulate or 

 hispidulous. ^Distrib. Species about 90, mainly in the Northern 

 Hemisphere. 



Pubescent ; leaves purple beneath ; corolla pale-blue . . 1. S. discolor. 



Glabrous ; leaves green beneath ; corolla dark-blue, with white 



centre of lower lip .. .. .. ..2. S. andamanica. 



