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SALVÍA confertiflora. 
Close-flowered Sage. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LAMIACEA, or LABIAT4E. 
SALVIA. Bot. Register, vol. 18. fol. 1554. 
$ VIII. CaroseHACE—Zrianthe. Bentham lab. 273. 
S. confertiflora ; caule fruticoso tomentoso, foliis petiolatis ovato-oblongis acu- 
tiusculis crenatis basi cuneatis suprà rugosis subtüs albo-tomentosis, flora- 
libus nanis ovatis acuminatis reflexis v. deciduis, racemis elongatis, verticil- 
lastris densé multifloris, calycibus corollisque fulvosanguineis lanatis his 
dupló tantüm longioribus ; limbi conniventis lobo intermedio integro, con- 
nectivis deflexis dilatatis abbreviatis connatis hinc ciliatis, stylo glabro. 
S. confertiflora. Bentham labiat. 276. 
This Sage is one of the many Brazilian species which de- 
serve introduction to our gardens. It was found near Rio 
Janeiro by Mr. Macrae, while in the service of the Horticul- 
tural Society, and in other parts of the empire by Sellow and 
Pohl. It belongs to a small section of the genus with short 
woolly flowers, the only other species of which, as yet in 
gardens, is the Salvia leucantha of Mexico. 
Its flowers are so bright and numerous as to render the 
plant a conspicuous object during the autumn months, at 
which time it blossoms. Whether or not it is sufficiently 
hardy to live out of doors in the summer is uncertain. 
The figure was taken from a plant presented to the Horti- 
cultural Society by John Dillwyn Llewellyn, Esq. 
The leaves have rather a heavy disagreeable smell of a 
peculiar nature, resembling perhaps a combination of the 
Dead-nettle and Sorrel. 
ies may be cultivated either in a greenhouse, or 
This spec 
n a rich border during the summer months. It 
planted out i 
