Tas, 6517. 
SALVIA HIANS. 
Native of Kashmir. : 
Nat. Ord. Lanrarm,—Tribe MonaRpEx. 
Genus Satvia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1194.) 
Satv1a (Drymosphace) hians ; herbacea, erecta, villosa, caule robusto 4-gono, foliis 
longe petiolatis deltoideo-ovatis basi truncatis v. hastatis acutis v. acuminatis 
crenato-dentatis rugosis, racemis simplicibus v. compositis, verticillastris 6-floris, 
calycis campanulati striati colorati glutinosi labio superiore integro truncato, 
inferiore sequilongo dentibus triangulari-ovatis acutis, corolla azurea_tubo 
ealyce triplo longiore subinflato, limbo brevi hiante, labio superiore brevi 2-lobo 
lobis acutis, inferioris lobis lateralibus brevibus reflexis, intermedio late obcor- 
dato pubescente. 
S. hians, Royle et Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. vol. iii. p. 373; Ill. Himal. Bot. 
t. 757; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 39; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 276. 
S. macrophylla, Tawsch in Flora, 1842, p. 282 (?). 
A very handsome perennial, of which seeds, collected in 
Kashmir, were sent to Kew by Dr. Aitchison in 1877. 
He describes it as growing profusely in grassy marshes, 
at elevations of from 8,500 to 11,000 feet, and flowering in 
July and August. It was first found by Royle’s collectors, 
sent from the Saharunpore Gardens to Kashmir, and 
flowered at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens in 
1840, whence the figure in the Botanical Register was 
made; but neither this figure, nor Royle’s, gives any idea of 
the intense sapphire-blue of the corolla. It has also been 
collected in Kashmir by Jacquemont and Falconer, and, as 
one of the most beautiful plants of that botanically rich 
valley, it can hardly escape the notice of future collectors. 
Dr. Lindley describes it as “one of the gayest of our 
perennials, in consequence of the striking contrast between 
the white and blue of its large flowers.” 
The specimen here figured flowered in the herbaceous 
grounds at Kew in June of the present year. 
OCTOBER Ist, 1880. 
