THE FORMS OF SALVIA VERBENACA 101 
As a synonym for this species St. Amans gives Barrelier’s 
“ Horminum minus, Betonice folio, flore urpureo,” ic. 167, a tall 
plant with leaves broader, more spreading, and less divided yh 
those in the figures quoted by Linneus for S. Verbenaca and 
S. clandestina 
In 1831 ak =— specific names appeared for Salvias related 
to this group, viz., S. controversa and S. collina. The first of 
these, S. eateiaibe, was published in Spuehey s Syll. Fl. Neap. 18, 
and the plant, gathered in Calabria, is described as “ foliis pinna- 
tifido-linearibus serratis rugosissimis s revolutis, caulibus foliosis, 
corollis colyalns Beale triplo longioribus, galea stricta 
subfaleata . The second species, S. collina, was in isosingess in 
Lowe’s Primitie ire Se Ee - 18, as “8. caule herbaceo, 
visco-piloso; foliis pinnatifidis, tt vel a grein 
venosis, glabris . corollis calycem duplo superantibus ; galea 
falcata, compressa, ” the author eens that his plant is the 
same as S. verbenacoides and ha. 
This series of specific names was shortly gers dealt 
with by Bentham (Labiat. gen. et spec, 239 sq. 1832-6), who 
identifies S. controversa Ten. Solace the S. a of the Flora 
Greca and the Linnean Herbarium (now referred to S. lanigera 
Poir.), and recognizes two oie: spent the S, Verbenaca and 
S. clandestina of the Species Plantarum. In this work S. hormi- 
notdes Pourr., and S. oblongata Vahl. are reduced to synonyms of 
Verbenaca, while the ne six species already alluded to 
are gies to S. clandestin 
type of S. aliheon is described as “ foliis late ovatis 
dhlongiaes crenatis . . . corollis calyce dimidio gece galea 
recta vel subfalcata,” and two varieties are created, 
B. oblongifolia. Foliis oblongis crenatis vix in 
y. incisa. Foliis late ovatis incisis, lobis fee acutis ap- 
seca maximé affinis est S. clandestine, cui forsan 
actin 
econ i i species, S. clandestina, is diagnosed : “ foliis ovato- 
ailing inciso-dentatis, pinnatifidi i . . . corollis calyce duplo 
longioribus galed subfalcaté. Planta quam frictions variabilis 
hine S. Verbenaca illine S. controverse affinis. Folia sepius an- 
gustiora, magis dissecta, prope basin c aulis e_| reemorenr ad statura 
humilior, racemus densior . .. specimina tam 
et S. Verbenacam media . eran oh figs no oer ut in S. eat 
versdé semiabortiva calyce brevi ty i 
8. multifida. Foliis peti: Sasi. pirmati fine lobis a 
"= iety is added, vez. :— 
oblon 
The aan: features of this combination, besides the reduc- 
tion in the number of species, seem to be a gene extension of 
the definition of S. clandestina and a restriction of the name of 
. Verbenaca to forms with but slightly divided leaves, whether 
or broad i in outline. 
oe ee cation n reappears in De Candolle’s Pretromas; xi 
294 (1848) with the addition, under S. clandestina, ofa second 
variety— 
