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SALVIA 113
Salvia asperata,
Falc.
(Asperata means rough or harsh.)
A harsh, coarse herb. Stems stout, erect, glandular-hairy.
Leaves 3-6 by 2-3 in., stalked, oblong-egg-shaped, heartshaped,
crenate, very much wrinkled. Flower- whorls distant,
6-10-flowered. Calyx broadly bell-shaped, stiff -hairy, rigid,
J in. long, teeth spinous, upper lip with 3 teeth. Corolla f in.
long, white ;
tube short, slender ;
throat shortly inflated ;
upper lip long, narrow, arched, lower shorter. Nutlets rV in.
long, almost globose.
Locality. Has been found between 5,000 and 6,000 ft.
Distribution. Kashmir, endemic.
Salvia dumetorum, Andrz.
(Dumetum means a thicket, alluding to the predilection of this
plant for brushwood.)
Stems herbaceous, erect, robust, hairy, 1-3 ft. high, much
branched. Lower leaves long-stalked, egg-shaped or oblongheart-shaped,
doubly crenate, wrinkled above; stem-leaves few,
stalkless, broadly heart-egg-shaped. Flower- whorls 6-flowered,
distant. Calyx almost stalkless, bell-ehaped, J in. long,
glandular-hairy, teeth of upper lip very short. Corolla J-f in.
long, blue, tube as long as the calyx, throat inflated.
Locality. Found by Falconer at about 6,000 ft.
Distribution. Vodhynia, Podolia, Altai.
Salvia lanata, Eoxb. Woolly Salvia. Collett, fig. 126.
A robust, tall, densely and softly woolly herb. Stems
usually many from the root, 12-18 in. high, simple or
branched. Leaves mostly radical, stalkless, oblong-lanceshaped,
3-6 by f-lj in., toothed; upper surface densely hairy
or almost hairless, wrinkled, lower densely hairy. Flowerwhorls
many, distant, sticky-hairy, 6-8-flowered. Bracts
sticky-hairy, large, round, abruptly pointed. Calyx bellshaped,
glandular-hairy, teeth spinous, upper lip 3-toothed.
Corolla f in. long ;
tube slender, not longer than the calyx ;
throat inflated ; upper lip long, curved, flattened, concave,
lower small. Nutlets rfr in., brown.
Flowers. May, June.
Locality. Srinagar.
Distribution. W. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon.
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