638 LABIATE. 



CALAMINTHA, Benth. 



C. glabella, Benth. Herbaceous, smooth ; stems slender (1° -2° high) ; 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, sparingly serrate, short-petioled ; whorls 

 mostly 6-flowered, sessile, tlie spreading pedicels twice as long as the calyx, 

 and commonly longer than the lanceolate acute bracts ; corolla pale purple. 

 (Cunila glabella, Michx.) — Rocky banks, Tennessee. 



SALVIA, L. 



S. lanceolata, Willd. Stem low (6' -12' high), smooth, the branches 

 pubescent; leaves lanceolate-linear, obtuse, obscurely serrate (1^-2' long), 

 narrowed to a petiole, tlie floral ones subulate ; whorls distant, mostly 2- 

 flowered ; corolla blue, scarcely longer than the smooth calyx. — East 

 Florida ( Gi-ay) , and far west. 



S. OCCidentalis, Swartz. Stem long (2° -6°), creeping, retrorsely pu- 

 bescent, the internodes swollen ; leaves short-petioled, ovate, acute, serrate ; 

 racemes spike-like, many-flowered ; whorls distant, mostly 6-flowered, as 

 long as the ovate acuminate bracts ; calyx glandular-villous, half as long as 

 the blue corolla, the teeth obtuse ; lobes of the style flat, rounded. — Miami, 

 South Florida ( Garber). 



S. privoides, Benth., var. Garberi. Chiefly like the preceding, but 

 the whorls less crowded and more distant, the calyx larger in fruit (3" -4" 

 long), the broad teeth abruptly contracted into an awn-like point, and both 

 lobes of the style rounded. (S. occidentalis, var. Garberi, Chapm.) — 

 Manatee, South Florida (Garber). 



SCUTELLABIA, L. 



S. saxatills, Eiddell. Smootli, or nearly so ; leaves thinner, obtuse, less 

 strongly crenate-toothed ; otiierwise like 6'. arguta, Buckley, which appears 

 to be scarcely a variety of it. — Shady woods, Tennessee, and northward. 



S. montana, Chapm. Softly pubescent; stem mostly simple m°-2° 

 high) ; leaves of the stem, and lowest floral ones, ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 coarsely serrate, acute at each end, or tlie lowest ones cordate ; racemes few- 

 flowered ; corolla large (l'-l|^' long), blue, the ample lower lip nearly as 

 long as the upper one. — Dry woods, and margins of fields, on the mountains 

 of Georgia. 



S. Canescens, Nutt., is nearly like the var. punctata of the first edition, 

 but is taller (3° -4° high), smooth or canescent, and leaves generally longer 

 and narrower. — Mountains of Georgia, Tennesseee, and northward. 



SYNANDRA, Nutt. 



Calyx inflated, bell-shaped, 4-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip 

 entire, the lower broadly 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, ascending under 

 the upper lip, hairy ; anthers smooth, the contiguous cells of the upper pair 

 smaller, sterile, and connate. Nutlets large, smooth, angular. 



