656 csii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Salvia. 



S. minntiflora, Bunge JEnum. PL Chin. Bar. 50. Ocimum f asti^atam, Soth 

 Nov. Sp. 277. Lumiiitzera fastigiata, Spreng. Syst. ii. 687. 



Thronghont Ibdia, in the plains and ascending the hills to 5000 ft. (absent &om 

 Ceylon). — Distbib. China, Malay Islands, Anstraha. 



Stem stont, 6-18 in., strict, fastigiately branched. Leaves 1-3 in., narrowed at 

 both ends ; floral small, lanceolate. CaU/x pedicelled, ^ in. Corolla-tube very short, 

 not exserted, limb very small. Nutlets very minnte, ^ in. long, ellipsoid. 



11. S- SB^yptiacaj Linn. ; a very dwarf scabernlona hispid or 

 hoary much-branched undershrab, leaves few small subsessile linear or 

 lanceolate acute rigid crenate, whorls remote 2-3-fld., flowers small, calyx 

 glandular-hairy. Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 355; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iy. 631; 

 Jacq. Sort. find. ii. 49, t. 108. 



PAif JAB Plain, from Delhi westwards, alt. 1-2000 ft. ; Jaequemont, &c. — 

 Distbib. Aifghanistan, W. Asia, N. Africa to the Cape Verde Islands. 



Branched from the base ; branches straggling, divaricate, rigid. Leaves rarely 

 1 in. Whorls distant. Calgx nodding, pedicelled, ovoid-campannlate, fruiting ^ in. 

 long ; npper lip orbicular minutely 3-toothed, teeth of lower subulate. Corolla and 

 stamens as in iS. plebeia. Nutlets ^ in. long, narrowly oblong, nearly black. 



Vab. pumila; more scabrid and hispid, leaves very rigid and rugose, calyx 

 villous with long hairs. S. pumila, BetUh. Lab. 726, and in DC. Prodr. zii. 356 ; 

 Dene, in Jacquem. Yoy. Bot. 128, 1. 133. — The Panjab plains wid hills from Delhi 

 westward ; Scinde, Stocks ; Affghanistan and Belnchistan. 



12. S. santolinsefolia, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 1 , v. 13, and Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 632 ; a dwarf much-brancned hoary uudershrub, leaves minute petioled 

 linear pectinately lobed, lobes rounded, margins revolute, whorls 2-3-fld. on. 

 very slender spikes, flowers minute, calyx hispid with long hairs. 



SoiNDE; on the Boogtie Hills, Vicary. — Distbib. Affghanistan, Persia. 



The specimens are flowerless and very insufficient, bnt I think referable to this 

 curious little species. The calyx resembles that of S. cegyptiaea, var. pumila. Floral 

 leaves persistent, elliptic, acute, i^ in. long. 



EXCLUDED AND ITlfENOWN SPECIES. 



S. INDICA, lAnn. , is a Syrian plant, and not Indian, whence the name is changed 

 by Boissier to S. brachycalyx. 



S. ACAITLIS, Vahl Enum. i. 157 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 354 (S. ocimoides, 

 Uoxb. in Wall. Cat. 2148; Benth. in Wall. pi. As. Mar. i. 68. S. lyrata, Eoxb. 

 Sort. Beng. 4, fid. Wight in Herb.), is only known as a plant cultivated in the Mis. 

 sion Grarden by Bottler, and is doubtless not Indian ; it has a long tubular corolla. 

 Hoxborgh says his S. lyrata is American. 



S. GEEAKDiAifA, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 2150, is the American S. coccinea, L. (see 

 Wall. Cat., p. 92), cultivated in In^a. 



29. NEPETA, Unn. 



Erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite. TFhorls axillary or ter- 

 minal; flowers blue, yellow or white. Calyx tubular, 15-ribbed, equally 

 5-toothed, or 2 lower teeth narrower. Corolla-tube not annulate within, 

 throat inflated; upper Up straight, notched or 2-fid ; lower 3-fid, midlobe 

 largest. Stamens 4, ascending under the upper lip or exserted, upper pair 

 longest; anther-cells diverging. Style-lobes subulate. Nutlets smooth. — 

 Species about 120, Temp. Europe, N. Africa and Asia. 



The following arrangement of the species of this troublesome genns is very artifi- 

 cial. I think that much better chai-acters may be found in the corolla, but this would 



