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SALVIA. splendens. 
Lee's Scarlet Sage. 
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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LABIATE. Jutsien gen. 110. Brown prod. 1. 499. Sect. I. 
Stamina 2 fertilia; v. dum 4 fertilia, antheræ omnium dimidiatæ. 
SALVIA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 347. 
S. splendens, foliis petiolatis ovatis lanceolato-acuminatis serratis, basi sub- 
cuneatis integerrimis, subtüs glabris: corolla: tubo elongato subtilissimá 
lanuginoso, labii inferioris laciniis lateralibus reflexis; stigmatibus ex- 
sertis styloque glaberrimis. 
Herba perennis, inferne suffrutescens, erecta, caule ramoso tetragono bi- 
tripedali, ramisstriato-tetraquetris patulis virentibus. Folia membranacea, 
lenta, petiolo longiora, decussato-distantia, patentia v. divaricata, ovata, 
lanceolato-acuminata, serrata, basi cuneata integra, suprà setulis minutis 
(in sicco candicantibus, viz aliàs nisi oculo armato manifesta) vagis con- 
spersa, subtüs glabra prominenter nervosa, majora triuncialia cum latitudine 
biunciali: petioli graciles. Racemi terminales, oblongi, pyramidati, toti 
coccineo-fulgentes, sesunciales v. ultrà; verticilli divaricati 6-2-/fow; flores 
pedicellati, longitudinem biuncialem excedentes : bractex erecta, calyce con- 
colores et duplo fer? longiores, lanceolate, caudato-acuminate acuminis la- 
teribus reflexis, caduca, extds villose. Cal. coceineus, oblongus, ampliusculus, 
infundibuliformis, uncialis, angulato-plicatus angulis hirsutiüs ciliatis, suprà 
bilabiato- labium superius indivisum acuminatum, inferius 2-fidum lo- 
bulis acuminatis patulis: pedicelli hirsuti flore multotiès breviores. Cor. la- 
nugine brevissimd ubens, tubuloso-elongata, rectiuscula ; faux cylindrica labio 
superiore quatèr fei longior: labium superius rectum oblongum obtusum indi- 
visum; inferius, brevius, tripartitum, laciniis lateralibus oblongis obtusis 
reflexis, mediá admodam latiore subrotundá concavá rectá. Fil. glabra, alba. 
Stylus paulo exsertus, glaber; stigmatibus 2 filiformi-subulatis, replicafis, 
glabris. ` 
Introduced by Mr. Lee from the Brazils into the Ham- 
mersmith Nursery, where the plant flowers freely in the hot- 
house and for a long time in succession. 
Recently observed by Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neu- 
wied, and mentioned in his travels by the name we have 
adopted, but without description. There are native samples 
collected by Mr. Sello, in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium. 
The species comes near to the Mexican SaLvia tubifera, 
but there the flowers are upright and narrower, the leaves 
grey-furred underneath and smooth above, and the style 
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