Tas. 6790, 
SALVIA PpaNniIcuLaTa. 
Native of South Africa. 
* 
Nat. Ord. Lapratz.—Tribe Monarpex. 
Genus Satvia, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. ii. p. 1194.) 
Satvia (Hymenosphace) paniculata; frutex erectus, robustus, scabridus, ramulis 
strictis teretibus, foliis breviter petiolatis obovatis acutis subdentatis coriaceis 
basi cuneatis utrinque scaberulis floralibus ovatis membranaceis deciduis, 
racemis paniculatim ramosis glanduloso-pubescentibus, verticillastris 2-floris 
distinctis, calyce breviter campanulato labiis subequalibus superiore integro 
rotundato, inferiore 2-dentato, corolla cwrulea calyce 3-4-plo longiore, tubo 
brevi, labio superiore falcato, inferiore equilongo dilatato 3-lobo. 
S. paniculata, Linn. Mant. pp. 25 and 511; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. i. p, 63; 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 275. 
S. Chameeleagnea, Berg. Deser. Pl. Cap. vol. i. p. 3. 
S. minor, &&., Breyn, Exot. Pi. Cent. vol. i. p. 169, t. 85. 
This belongs to a geographical section of the vast genus 
of Sages of which all inhabit South Africa, except 8. 
canariensis (from the Canary Islands), and which is one 
of the few South African types which are indigenous in 
that interesting archipelago. Of this section twelve species _ 
are described by Bentham in De Candolle’s “* Prodromus,” 
of which several were in cultivation early in the century, 
but most, if not all, have long since died out. Thus 8. 
paniculata itself was introduced by Philip Miller in 1753, and 
as will be seen further on, long lingered in the Cambridge 
Botanical Gardens; S. canariensis so long ago as 1697, 
in the garden of the Duchess of Beaufort, and is figured 
by Trew. A most beautiful one is S. aurea, figured at 
Tab. 182 of this work (in 1792), with orange-yellow flowers 
an inch and a half in diameter, which turn a rusty brown ; 
it was cultivated in 1731 by Miller, and grew to the size 
- of a shrub six to seven feet high. In those early days of 
horticulture in England the Cape House was an attractive 
feature. This was when the plant-houses were heated with 
DECEMBER Ist, 1884. 
