a pale brown colour. Stems shrubby, upright and much 
branched, from two and a half to three feet high, but pro- 
bably larger when grown in the open border. Leaves three- 
lobed, or more probably hastate, rounded at the base, with 
obtuse points, and finely serrated at the edges. Those of the 
stem have channelled hairy footstalks, from two and a half - 
to three inches long, and are besides much larger than the 
rest, usually measuring about four inches in length, and 
nearly the same from the point of one lobe across to the 
other. The smaller leaves have short footstalks, and are 
narrow in proportion to their length; the latter varies from 
two to two inches and a half, while they are only about one 
inch and a half in breadth. All of them are of a deep green, 
strongly reticulated, and densely clothed with soft hairy 
pubescence. Bracts linear-lanceolate, three-nerved, and 
about an inch long.  Pedicels scarcely half the length of 
the bracteas, round, and of a paler green than the leaves. 
Calyx somewhat campanulate, two-lipped, both of them acu- 
minate, and tinged with brown at the point. The upper lip 
is larger and rather longer than the lower one, which is bifid. 
The Flowers are produced in loose, erect, terminal spikes, 
containing upwards of sixteen on each. They are large and 
handsome, of a deep purplish blue, and come in pairs at each 
joint. The upper lip, which extends horizontally, is much 
arched and compressed. It measures about two inches in 
length, from the calyx to the point, and its breadth in the 
middle of the arch, from which it diminishes both ways, is 
about half an inch. The edges are a pale blue. The lower 
lip is three-lobed, and hangs nearly at right angles with the 
upper, which it exceeds a little in length. The middle 
lobe is the largest, and measures one inch and a quarter 
across. It is round and spreading, somewhat undulated 
at the margin, and notched in the middle. The lateral lobes 
are revolute at the edges, and about an inch in length. 
The opening of the throat is marked by three small white 
stripes on each side. Stamens filiform, curved, and together 
with the style, which is rather longer and more slender, 
concealed by the upper lip. At the base they are slightly 
gibbous, and unite into a small spathulate process, which 
projects a little below the junction with the two bodies that 
attaches them to the lip. Ovarium four-lobed, containing 
one erect seed in each, and enclosed by the calyx, which 
contracts at the mouth after the flowers drop. 
_ “The plant, perhaps, is seen to most advantage when cul- 
tivated in the greenhouse, its large blue flowers being liable 
to be "e by high winds, if exposed in the open border; 
although, like the other Salvias, it will grow in any rich 
garden soil. It increases easily from cuttings, or by seeds, 
which are freely produced. In the course of a short time 
it will no doubt become common." ; 
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