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SALVIA tubifera. 
Tube-flowered Salvia. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LastaTa&, or LAMIACER. 
SALVIA. Botanical Register, vol. 4. fol. 347. 
S. tubifera; caule herbaceo glabriusculo, foliis petiolatis lato-ovatis serrato- 
crenatis basi rotundato-truncatis vel subcuneatis glabriusculis v. subtis 
cano-pubescentibus: floralibus deciduis, racemis simplicibus, verticil- 
lastris subsexfloris secundis, calycibus subsessilibus tubulosis striatis 
glabriusculis, labio superiore integro inferiorisque dentibus ovatis acumi- 
natis, corollis calyce 3-4-pld longioribus extis glabris v. pubescentibus, 
tubo longé exserto quali subincurvo, labiis abbreviatis, superiore erecto 
integro inferiore breviore lobis rotundatis deflexis, medio integro, con- 
nectivis postice breviter productis deflexis linearibus subdilatatis longi- 
tudinaliter connatis, stylo barbato. Bentham gen. § sp. Labiatarum, 
p. 298. 
S. tubifera. Cavan. ic. 1. 23. ¢.25. Supra mise. no. 40. 
S. longiflora. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 141. 
One of Mr. Hartweg’s discoveries in Mexico, whence the 
Horticultural Society received the seed. It has much the 
habit of the old Salvia lamiifolia, otherwise called ameena, but 
is greatly superior in point of beauty. It forms a bush about 
three feet high, branching and well covered with leaves, and 
at the end of every one of the branches there appear the long | 
racemes of slender purple flowers which are so disposed as to 
form a drooping or curving ornament. In colour they 
resemble those of such plants as Justicia elegans, and are very 
different from any of the other Sages now in our gardens. 
Fig. 1. represents the curious stamens of this plant ; a is 
a filament, by which they adhere to the corolla; and the 
perpendicular part from } up to the anther is the enlarged 
connective, which directs itself upwards and downwards in a 
narrow line, adhering at its base to the part of the other 
