1800.] D. Prain — Some add'dwual species of Labiiitae. 301 



28. SALVIA Ltnn. 



[Salvia coccinea Linn, is not infrequently found as an escape from 

 cultivation in the Nilgliiri hills, Sikkim etc. S. utilis Brauu, and S. 

 vcrhenaca Linn, also occur as escapes in the Nilghiris.] 



§ EusPHACE Benth. Shrubs or herbs, leaves entire or pinnatisect 

 floral small or not, upper calyx lip very shortly 3-toothed, corolla tube 

 suboxserted annulate within, upper lip erect emarginate, connectives 

 witli an imperfect cell behind. 



1.* Salvia cabulica Benth . ; a branching shrub, leaves long-pe- 

 tioled small, softy villous, cordate ovate-orbicular, crenate, rugulose, floral 

 small oblong lanceolate, whorls 2 — 4-flowered few, subterminal, calyx 

 pedicelled campanulate 2-lipped, upper lip shortly 3-toothed lower 2-fid 

 teeth all mucronate, corolla 2|- times as long as calyx. — Salvia cabulica 

 Benth., DC. Prodr. xii, 268 ; Boiss., Flor. Orient, iv, 594. 



Panjab Frontier ; Suleiman hills Stewart, Duke, Hamilton. Dis- 

 TRIB. Beluchistan, Afghanistan. 



Stems GO — 100 cm. bushy, old branches with white flaking bark, 

 young branches short slender rigid, petioles 0'5 — 1 5 cm., laminas 1 — 2 

 cm. long 1 — '15 cm. wide, pedicels 5 mm , calyx 11 mm., corolla 15 mm. 

 (tube 11 mm. lips 4 — 5 mm.), nutlets 4i mm. suborbicular, often one or 

 more abortive, testa mucilaginous when boiled. 



A very distinct species, obtained by nearly every one who has col- 

 lected within or beyond the N.-W. Frontier. 



§ § Hymenosphace Benth. Shrubs, rarely herbs, leaves entire or 

 pinnatisect floral smaller, upper calyx-lip entire or shortly 3-toothed, 

 corolla tube exserted or not, annulate within, upper lip suberect or falcate 

 hardly compressed, connective with an imperfect cell behind. 



1. * * Salvia hydrangea DC. ; woody below, adpressed hoaiy, 

 branches erect simple white, leaves petioled pinnatisect, segments 3 — 4- 

 paired oblong obtuse entire pubescent or hirsute on both surfaces, 

 lateral lanceolate-oblong or linear, terminal elliptic oblong larger, floral 

 leaves sessile lower pinnatisect longer than flowers, upper ovate entire 

 shorter than flowers coloured deciduous, whorls 6 — 10-flowered distant 

 flowers shortly pedicelled, calyx very large rose pink thinly membranous 

 glabrous except the distinct sparingly hirsute nerves, lips large, upper 

 broad blunt sinuate emarginate, lower 2-fid lobes ovate subacute, corolla 

 tube slightly exserted. — Salvia hydrangea BG. mss. m Benth., Lab. 

 Gen. Sf Sp. 717 and Prodr. xii, 271 ; Boiss., Flor. Orient, iv, 606. 



Panjab Frontier ; Suleiman range ; Duke, Bind, etc. ; common 

 like the preceding, all along and beyond the N. W. Frontier. 



Stems 60 — 100 cm., leaves 6 — 8 cm., petioles 0*5 — 1 cm., terminal 



