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8. Acanthomintha Gray. 
Calyx tubular 13-nerved, naked in the throat. 
Upper lip 3-dentate. Lower lip 2-parted, 
shorter, Teeth spinulose. Corolla tube ex- 
ceeding the calyx, naked. Upper lip curved, 
entire or 2-lobed. Lower lip 3-lobed. Upper 
pair of stamens sterile and shorter. Lower 
pair ascending. Anthers 2-celled. Cells 
divaricate. Bracts thorny.—©. 
1. <A. LANcEOLATA Curran. Flowers rose- 
color.—Niies. Summer. 
9. Sphacele Benth. 
Calyx campanulate, enlarged in fruit, 10- 
nerved, : reticulate-veined, 5-dentate. Tube of 
-the corolla wide, with a hairy ring near its 
base, the 5 lobes ef the limb. obtuse. Lower 
lobes the longer ones. Stamens ascending. 
Cells of the anthers divergent.—b. Flowers 
large, pale. 
1. §. carycrna Benth.—San Mateo. Sum- 
mer. 
10. Salvia. Sacz. 
Calyx 2-labiate. Corolla ringent. Stamens 
2, parallel. Authers separated by a connective, 
shaped like a branch of the filament; only the 
posterior end of it bearing an anther cell. 
1. §. carpuacga Benth. White-woolly with 
cobwebby hair; radical leaves sinuate to 
