302 D. Prain — Some additional species of Labiatae. [No. 4, 



leaflet 3 — 4 cm. long 2 cm. across, lateral 15 — 2 cm. long 1 cm. across, 

 cahjx 20 mm. long, (tube 10 mm. long upper lip 20 mm wide, lobes of 

 lower lip each 12 mm.), corolla 25 mm. (tube 20 mm, lips 5 — 6 mm.), 

 nutlets smooth subglobose 4 mm. long. 



A handsome species with a striking appearance on account of its 

 large, delicate rose-pink calyces. The Panjab plant connects true 

 8. hydrangea with S. Sheilei Boiss. 



§ § § § ^THioPis Benth. (Sect. 2 , F. B. L iv, 654). 



5 h. Salvia macrosiphon Boiss., tall, slender, hirsute, leaves petioled 

 rugose densely hirsute above and beneath oblong obtuse base rounded mar- 

 gin subentire, floral submembranous ovate long-acuminate shorter than 

 calyx, whorls 2 — 4-flowered distant, calyx long tubular, teeth straight 

 lanceolate acute, corolla white 1^ times as long as calyx, tube exserted, 

 upper lip suberect. — Salvia macrosiphon Boiss., Diagn., ser. 1, v, 11 

 (1844); Benth., DG. Prodr. xii, 282 (1848); Boiss., Flor. Orient, iv, 

 615 (1879). — Salvia macrosiphon var. cabulica Benth., DG. Prodr., xii, 

 282 (1848). — Salvia macrosiphon var. Kotschyi Boiss., Flor. Orient., 

 iv, 615 (1879).— Salvia Kotschyi Boiss., Diagn., ser. 1, vii, 46 (1846). 



Panjab Frontaer ; Beluchistan, assigned districts. Pitman, Duke; 

 Suleiman range, Saunders. Distrib. Beluchistan, Afghanistan, Persia. 

 Stem 40 — 60 cm., petioles 3 — 5 cm., leaves 4 — 8 cm. long 2—5 cm. 

 wide, calyx 20 — 25 mm. long 7 mm. wide, corolla 25 — 30 mm., nutlets 

 orbicular ovate subcompressed, pale green, shining and marbled with 

 dark reticulations. 



\_Saloia spinosa Linn, and Salvia Sclarea Linn, have been repeatedly 

 collected just beyond the N.-W. Frontier but not as yet within British 

 territory.] 



28 b. ZIZIPHORA Benth. 



Dwarf annual herbs or spreading perennial small shrubs with rigid 

 stems, often hoary-tomentose, with small entire or slightly toothed leaves, 

 floral like cauline or shorter and broader, whorls few-flowered axillary 

 often crowded towards the apex of the stem, flowers subsessile or shortly 

 pedicelled, bracteoles very small, calyx tubular elongated 13-nerved 2- 

 lipped (upper 3- lower 2-toothed), throat villous, teeth in fruit subcon- 

 nivent, corolla small, tube hardly exserted glabrous within somewhat 

 dilated upwards, upper lip erect entire, lower spreading 3-fid, mid-lobe 

 emarginate ;.s/^ame?^5, 2 perfect (anterior), ascending under upper lip or 

 subexserted, anthers linear perfect or with the lower cell empty, uppet 

 staminodes small or 0, disc uniform, style 2-tid lower lobe longer, 7iut- 

 lets ovoid, smooth. — Species about 12; Cent. Asian, Oriental, Mediter- 

 ranean, 



