Tas. 5947. 
SALVIA RUBESCENS. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Lapiata.—Tribe, MonarvEz. 
Genus Satvia, Linn. ; (Benth. in DC. Prod., vol. xii. p. 262). 
Satvia (Calosphace) rubescens ; erecta, fruticosa, canescens, foliis petiolatis 
ovatis ovato-cordatisve acutis v. acuminatis crenatis subtus nervisque 
supra canis, spicis pyramidatim paniculatis glanduloso-pubescentibus 
glutinosis, verticillastris 4-8 floris distantibus, calycis purpurei labio 
superiore late ovato subacuto, inferiore 2-fido, laciniis acuminatis, 
corolla coccinea calyce duplo longiore glaberrima. 
Satv1A rubescens, Humb., Bonpl. and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et. Sp., vol. ii. p. 301, 
t. 154. Benth. in DC. Prod., vol. xii. p. 345. 
S. boliviana, Planch, in Flore des Serres, t. 1148. 
A beautiful Andean Sage, belonging to the great group of 
Calosphace, which comprises most of the species of that im- 
mense European and American genus. It is a native of New 
Grenada, and was introduced into Europe first by M. Von 
Warscewicz, who sent seeds from Bolivia to M. Van Houtte, 
which flowered at Ghent in 1856, and from which the 
drawing cited above was published as S. boliviana. More 
recently Mr. Anderson Henry received seeds from Prof. Jame- 
son of Quito, and raised plants, one of which being sent to 
the Royal Gardens, flowered in 1862, and is here figured. 
Descr. A tall branched shrub, with herbaceous branches, 
more or less clothed with a pale hoary pubescence, most 
conspicuous when dry. Sfems four-angled, with concave faces, 
angles obtuse. Leaves very variable in size, four to ten — 
inches long, three to five inches broad, long-petioled, ovate- — 
cordate, crenate, acute or acuminate, puberulous on the upper 
JANUARY Ist, 1872. 
