Sahia, LABIATE. 371 



to 6 feet long : leaves ovate, with rounded or euneate base, serrate ; floral or bracts 

 minute, ovate, acuminate, persistent: flowers few in the clusters, subsessile. seldom 2 lines 

 long including the slightly exscrtcd corolla : calyx oblong, with very short pointless or 

 mucronate teeth, nearly closed in fruit, then only 2 lines long. — Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 4-J ; Benth. 

 in DC. 1. c. 2110.— fS. Florida, Gurber. (Trop. Am., &o.) 

 S. privoides, Benth. 1. c. Resembles the preceding (and both stigmas in our specimens 

 obtUM): but flowers more pedicellate, larger ; with fructiferous calyx fully 3 lines long, 

 rather deeply bilabiate ; the upper Up and the lobes of the lower abruptly aristulate. — 

 Bot. Sulpli. 150 & in DC. 1. c. -S. occidentiilis, var. ? Gurheri, Chapm. in Bot. Gazette, iii. 10. 

 — Manatee, Southern Florida, Garber. A much less hairy form than the original, and more 

 resembling the ^Vt•st Indian .S. micraiUlm, Vahl, except in the style and the awn-tipped 

 calyx-lobes. (Troj^Am.)« ^/ / 

 Ti^f' J^;f^Sy^i-^.^-^>Z'-^,C''^--y%^ ^ Shrubby. 



^ Leaves oblong or elliptical^ short-petioled : calyx cylindraceous or campanulate. 



""S. chamaedryoides, 'Cav. Low, much branched, canescent and scabrous : leaves 

 thickish, more or less erenulate, obtuse (less than inch long) ; bract-like floral ones cadu- 

 cous : flowers geminate or few in the clusters of the raceme : calyx cylindraceous-campan- 

 ulate (-t lines long), striate, hispidulous on the nerves ; ovate upper lip and teeth of the 

 2-parted lower lip acute or acuminate, not half the length of the tube : corolla blue, over 

 half inch long ; middle lobe of lower lip broader than long, obcordate-lobed. — Ic. ii. 77, 

 t. 197; Bot. Mag. t. 808. S. Ch„m„:dr,js, WiUd. Hort. Berol. t. 29. — S. W. borders of 

 Texas, in canons of the Rio Grande, &c., WriglU, Parry. Specimens insufficient, probably 

 of this species, (ilex.) 

 S. Parryi, Gray. Low, much branched : leaves ovate-oblong, mostly with truncate 

 base, obtuse, crenate, short-petioled, tomentulose-caneseent, as are the branchlets : bract- 

 like floral leaves ovate, acuminate, membranaceous, glabrous above, apparently persistent, 

 longer than the interruptedly spicate flowers : these several m each cluster : calyx campan- 

 ulate, densely lanate with white dendritic-branched hairs ; upper lip 3-toothed, lower 2- 

 cleft, equalling the tube of tlie short and small (blue ? ) slightly dendritic-pubescent 

 corolla: upper lip of the latter emarginate; middle lobe of the lower ample, 3-lobed, with 

 its middle portion much larger, rounded, and emarginate : connectives free : lower fork 

 semiliastate, as long as the subulate antheriferous one. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 300. 

 S. Sjiicala? Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 131, not Roem. & Sch. — Apache Springs on the Rio 

 Grande, on the borders of Texas. Lower leaves not seen, upper 9 to 5 and floral 3 or 4 

 lines long. 



= = Leaves mostly ovate, -lender-petioled : calyx short-funnelform, in fruit with ampliate reti- 

 culate-veiny 2-.3-lnbed limb exceeding the tube of the short corolla: lower fork of the connective 

 liiiear-oblong : style ciliate-bearded above. 



- S. ballotseflora, Benth. (JIajoraxo of the Mexicans.) Shrub 2 to 8 feet high, 

 tomentulose-caneseent : leaves ovate or somewhat oblong, truncate-cuneate or subcordate 



' at base, crenate, reticulate-veiny, mostly rugose, glabrate and green above, white beneath 

 (4 to 12 lines long) : flowers in short and rather dense simple racemes and in axils of upper 

 ordinary leaves, i lines long : calyx twice the length of the pedicel, in flower 2 or barely .3 

 and in fruit 4 or o lines long, then pendulous ; narrow tube striate-nerved ; its 3 lobes 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, entire, almost equal : connective hairy opposite its insertion ; throat 

 of small bluish or purple corolla ventricose-gibbous. — Benth. Lab. 270: Torr. Bot. Mex. 

 Bound. 131. .?. ballokvftora & S. laxa, Benth. in DC. 1. c. 313. — Southern and Western 

 Texas. (Adjacent Mex.) 



S. PLATTCHEiL.i, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 292, from Carmen Island in the Gulf of 

 California resembles the preceding, but has tlie lower lip of the calyx similar to the upper, 

 except that the apex is 2-toothed. 



§ 5. SclXrea, Benth. & Hook. Throat of calyx naked, and of corolla not 

 pilose-annulate : anterior portion of the connectives deflexed, abruptly dilated 

 aii'l connected by the callose lower extremity, destitute of an anther-cell, or with 

 a sterile rudiment : upper lip of corolla erect and concave, or falcate-compressed. 

 Old World species, sparingly introduced. 



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