460 



LABIATyE. 



oblong, cuspidate; lower lip of calyx very short, the '2 teeth prickly; 

 upper lip arched, crowned by 3 short sharp teeth; style and stamen- 

 little exserted; lower portion of connective in fertile stamens manifest 

 at the joint as a subulate rudiment; upper pair of stamens represented 

 by short sterile filaments, their tips approximate; corolla white or 

 slightly lilac-tinged and rather small, exserted; upper lip notched: 

 middle lobe of lower lip transversely oblong or orbicular, emarginate 

 and slightly denticulate, joined to the main part of the lip by a narrow 

 constriction. — (Audibertia stachyoides Benth.) 



Mount Diablo; Las Tram pas Ridge; near Haywards; San Mateo 

 Co.; Glenwood and Loraa Prieta, southward to Southern California. 

 Apr. -May. 



S. Califorxk a (Audibertia polystachya Benth.), White Sage, 

 is a shrubby species, often 8 ft. high, occurring from Santa Barbara 

 to San Diego, and distinguished by its open paniculate inflorescence. 



4. S. Sonomensis Greene. Ramoxa. Plants more or less 

 matted, the flowering stems almost leafless and scape-like, 4 to 8 

 in. high, ascending from a leafy decumbent or prostrate base; leaves 

 green and rugulose above, whitish with a close dense tomentum 

 beneath, oblong- or obovate-spatulate, crenulate, petioled, 1£ to 3£ in. 

 long; calyx like that of S. mellifera but the prickly teeth of the 

 larger upper lip short; corolla light violet; upper lip short, of 

 two erect or somewhat retrocurved lanceolate lobes; lower lip large, 

 much prolonged in the direction of the tube, its lateral lobes acute, 

 short, the middle with its orbicular-dilated terminal portion turned 

 abruptly downward, its margin denticulate or somewhat fringed; 

 upper (sterile) stamens inserted at orifice of tube, bristle-like, diver- 

 gent; two lower (fertile) stamens inserted on lower lip without the 

 orifice, ascending, straight (nearly as long as the corolla); style long 

 exserted. — (Audibertia humilis Benth. Ramona humilis Greene.) 



Montane species at middle altitudes: Sonoma; mountains west of 

 Calistoga; Mt. Shasta; Calaveras and Mariposa Cos.; San Diego Co. 

 May. 



■3. S. spathacea Greene. Crimsox Sage. Coarse strictly herba- 

 ceous plant, very viscid and glandular-pubescent or -villous; upper 

 surface of leaves dark green, under surface whitened with a close short 

 tufted tomentum; stems erect, simple, 1£ to 2 ft. high; leaves broadly 

 oblong-ovate, with broadly triangular-cordate base, more or less 

 doubly crenate or crenulate, upper surface rugulose,4 to 8 in. long, on 

 petioles 2 or 3 in. long or some of the cauline sessile; whorls of flowers 

 5 or 6 or more, subtended by broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate mem- 

 branaceous purplish bracts: calyx strongly veined, laterally com- 

 pressed but somewhat inflated, 1 in. long or over, £ in. wide at the 

 broadest part, spathe-like, deeply slit in front between the two cuspi- 

 date-tipped teeth, the upper concave lip much larger, 3-dentate with 

 the middle tooth largest; corolla crimson, 1^ to 1£ in. long; upper lip 

 short, nearly erect, emarginate; lower lip spreading, the lateral lobes 

 short, triangular, acute, the middle lobe much developed, broadly 

 obcordate, 4 lines broad; stamens much exserted; lower fork of the 



