An extremely beautiful Brazilian Sage, at least the vari- 
ety here represented is of that character. Pont, the ori- 
ginal discoverer (among shrubs in the Serra d’Kstrella and 
in the Padre Correa, Brazil) and describer of this plant, 
distinguishes two states of it; the one corollis flavidis, the 
kind he figures, and the other corollis rubellis. But the 
blossoms of our Satvia are of a much more beautiful colour 
than even the latter name would indicate: these corollas 
are likewise longer, more protruded from the calyx, and 
the leaves are more acuminated than in his figure. It was 
discovered in the Organ Mountains of Brazil, and by him 
sent to the Glasgow and other Botanic Gardens, where 
it has flowered during the autumnal months; and though 
able to bear the open border in the summer months, yet 
it comes to greater perfection in a warm greenhouse. 
Descr. Plant three to four feet high, shrubby, every- 
where more or less pubescenti-hirsute. Stem quadrangular, 
thickened and reddish at the angles. Lower leaves very 
large, six inches and upwards long, all of them ovate, peti- 
olate, acuminate, coarsely serrated, wrinkled, beneath to- 
mentose and pale. Raceme spiciform, very long, composed 
of numerous whorls of rather small and nearly sessile, bright- 
red flowers. Calyx deeply tinged with red, densely clothed, 
as is the corolla, with velvety hairs or tomentum. Corolla 
more than twice as long as the calyx, clavate, shortly two- 
lipped, very obtuse ; lips nearly equal, both of them very 
concave ; upper one entire, lower cut into three incurved 
lobes, of which the middle one is the longest and entire. 
Anthers with the clubbed apex of their connectivum con- 
joined. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open :—magnified. 
