Tab. 4318 . 
SALVIA LEUCANTHA. 
Wliite-Jloivered Salvia. 
Nat. Ord. LABiAXiE.— Dec.4Ndria Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore integro v. tridentato, inferiore 
bilobo. Corolla bilabiata, labio superiore erecto fornicato v. falcato, inferiore 
patente trifido. Stamina fertilia 3, sub labio superiore ascendentia. Filamenta 
brevissima, tubo inclusa. Antherce dimidiatse; connectivo elongato filiformi 
incurvo, postice saepius clavato, rarius antherse loculum altemm gerente. Sfylm 
apice bifidus, lobo superiore saepius bre\dore. Achenia sicca. Benth. 
Salvia leiicantha ; fruticosa, folds breviter petiolatis anguste oblongo-lanceolatis 
acutis crenato-serratis supra rugosis nudiusculis subtus albo-lanatis, racemo 
elongato, verticillastris multifloris infimis remotis, calycibus subsessilibus 
ovatis pulcberrime dense violaceo-lanatis, labio supeijore integro dentibusque 
labii inferioris ovatis acutis, corollis calyce duplo longioribus albis lanatis 
tubo exserto ampliato subventricoso, labiis abbreviatis superiore erecto 
integro inferioris lobis lateralibus rotundatis medio emarginato, connectivo 
postice lineari-dilatatis deflexis comiatis, stylo barbato. 
Salvia leucantha. Cauaw. Jc. ». 1. p. 16. t. 24. Benth. Lab. p. 21 h. Spreny. 
Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 58. 
This rare and remarkable Salvia possesses in its numeious 
flowers, in the rich violet or lavender coloured tomentum of 
the calyx, and the pure white of the corollas, a beauty w'hicli 
cannot well be represented on paper. It is a native of Mexico, 
and has now been first introduced to the Greenhouse of this 
country, from a garden at Nice, by Lady Smhke, Great Stanmore, 
Middlesex; in whose collection it flowered in June, 1847. 
Descr. Plant 2 k ioot and a half to two feet \\\^-. branches 
rather obtusely four-angled, elongated, w'oolly, chiefly '^h^® 
young. Leaves narrow, oblong-lanceolate, on short petioles, 
acute, rugose and almost glabrous, dark green above, beneath 
clothed with greenish white woolly down. Spike ov racenie veiy 
much elongated: the rachis clothed with violet-coloured ' 
Pseudo-whorls rather distant below, naked or subtended by 
subulate deciduous bracteas. Floivers six to eight or more m a 
whorl, crowded, nearly sessile. Cal^x ovato-cylindrical, clothed 
with dense violet or lavender-coloured wool, paler and almost 
august 1st, 1847. 
