858 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Meria ndra, 
757. Meriandra Benth. 
Hoary or woolly, strongly scented shrubs; Jeaves opposite, 
coriaceous, oblong, crenulate, rugulose above. Flowers small ; 
whorls very many and dense-flowered, in large, terminal. broad, or 
small and paniculate, catkin-like spikes ; bracts closely, strobilately 
imbricate. Sepals 5, connate in a small, ovoid, 2-lipped calyx; 
throat naked; upper lip concave, subentire; lower lip 2-fid. 
Petals connate in a tubular corolla, with 4-fid limb; lobes sub- 
equal, spreading, the upper entire or emarginate. Stamens 2 
anterior only perfect; filaments short, stout, erect, distant; 
athe 2-celled ; cells linear, pendulous, stipitate, discrete ; pos- 
terior stamens reduced to 2 usually small staminodes, but with 
occasionally one of the 2 provided with an imperfect anther. Disk 
C. wipes connate in a 4-partite ovary; style shortly 
-lamellate at tip. Fruit of 4 ovoid-oblong, obtuse, smooth, dry 
nutlets ; basal scar small. 
1678. MERIANDRA BENGALENSIS Benth.; F. B. I. iv. 653; E. D. 
Salvia bengalensis F. I. i. 145. 
is native gardens in C. Bengal. 
A large, tyme shrub ; native of Abyssinia. Vernac. 
Kafur-ka 
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758. Salvia Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs. Flowers small, or large and showy; whorls 
usually racemose or spicate; bracts small or large and leafy, 
pene A red, Sepals 5, connate in a 2-lipped calyx; tube 
eylindric campanulate; throat naked; upper lip entire or 
3-toothed, ‘dein er 2-fid. Petals 5, connate in a 2-lipped corolla; 
tube naked or annulate within; up ig : erect, entire; lower 
3-lobed, lateral lobes spreading. Stamens 2, anterior only perfect; 
filaments short, articulate with the nircne Siesniiedti ve: and some- 
times produced beyond the joint; anthers dimidiate ; connective 
linear, transverse; posterior arm ascending and bearing a linear, 
fertile cell; anterior arm straight or petals with a fertile or 
empty cell or naked ; onsen stamens represented by small 
staminodes or obsolete. Disk usually enlarged in front. Carpels 
connate in a 4-partite ovary; aiid shortly 2-fid; lobes equal, 
ovoid, triangular, smooth, dry nutlets; basal scar small, 
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subulate, or the anterior longer, sometimes flattened. Fruit of 4 4 
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