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An essential apie er however, seems to have been neglected, for 
in the figure of Sibthorp’s plant, which came from the conse seal 
hood of Constantinople, the upper lip of the calyx is s 
broadly truncate, with distant and diverging spinescent bacthea 
feature (emphasized in the detailed description “ pon dentes 
superiores haud fastigiati’’) so different from the type of calyx 
found in S. Verbenaca and its allies as reese to place S. multe- 
So far 
fida in quite another section of the a 
the National Herbarium contains no “specimen of S. multifida 
showing this peculiar form of c in a fragment pre- 
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served there, labelled ‘“ Gcusitantion pln. Dr. “Bibthorp, ” the ordi- 
ary. calyx of S. Verbenaca is distinguishable, it would seem 
doubtful whether such a plant as that depicted in the Flora 
Greca really exists. This Say eset was noticed by Bentham, 
who remarks in the Labiate that ad seen specimens cabed 
Sibthorp showing the ordinary sabes of S. Verbenaca. In thes 
circumstances it seems inadvisable to retain S. multifida as a 
member of the Verbenaca group. 
n 1809 w name, S. eae ~ substituted for 
. verbenacoides Brot., n Hoffm segg and Link’s lore Portu- 
as follows, viz.: —‘ Caulis plerumque spithamzus, interdum 
a ; Foliis . . . summis sessilibus, ovalibus, cordatis, 
incisis, acuminatis . . . coroll4 calycem longe superante, com- 
pressa, cerulea, labii lobo medio albo. ...” Like Brotero’s species, 
on which it is oe this too has ‘three varieties besides the 
The first, var. acutata, is distinguished by a more acute 
spike, more Gseply cut aoe and the corolla wholly blue. The 
second, var. parviflora, has the corolla barely exceeding the calyx 
and with ‘nahi’ stamens, and is said to differ from S. Verbenaca 
in the cordate and much broader upper leaves. The third var., 
elatior, is characterized chiefly by its stature. It is observed b 
the authors, as a reason for uniting these pace lone plants 
ora large-flowered forms have been produ ei ° The description 
is supplemented by an excellent (tab. 19) of the typical 
se bias is no isos S. clan estina, L., but branched and 
h t, ee Sketches 
oe: = corolla of the Bet and ‘small-flowered varieties are also 
ine 
A plant found chr Agen, in the Valley of the Garonne, was 
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