Tab. 6980. 

 salvia scapiformis. 



Native of Formosa. 



Nat. Ord. Labiatje. — Tribe Monaede^;. 

 Genus Salvia, Linn.; (Bentk. et HooJc.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 1194.) 



Salvia" (Notosphace) scapiformis; glaberrima, caule gracili, foliis subradicalibus 

 longe petiolatis late ovato- v. oblongo-cordatis crenatis apice rotundatis 

 olivaceis subtus purpurascentibus, scapis nudis v. ruins 2-foliatis ad basin 

 fere floriferis, racemis ramosis elongatis gracilibus, verticillastris laxis 5-floris, 

 calvce tomentello, labio superiore rotundato integerrimo, inferiore breviter 2- 

 dentato, corolla azureo-lilacinas tubo calyce longiore, labio superiore erecto 

 2-lobo, inferiore 3-lobo lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusis, medio 2-lobo lobia 

 divaricatis truncatis crenatis. 



S. scapiformis, Hance in Lond. Journ. JBot. vol. xxiii. (1885) p. 368. 



The late Dr. Hance, the author of this Sage, rightly 

 describes it as being well worthy of cultivation as an orna- 

 mental plant ; for which purpose the profuseness of its 

 flowering racemes, the delicate clear colour of the ame- 

 thystine blue flowers, and graceful habit recommend it. 

 As a species it is closely allied to the Indian 8. saxicola, 

 Wall., a common plant in the Khasian Mountains of 

 Eastern Bengal,* where many Chinese plants, and plants 

 closely allied to Chinese, not found further eastward in 

 India, have been discovered. 8. scapiformis differs from 

 8. saxicola in being perfectly glabrous, in the almost total 

 absence of bracts, in the shorter lower lip of the calyx, and 

 in the larger corolla with longer lobes. 



Salvia cepiformis was discovered by Mr. C. Ford, Superin- 

 tendent of the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens, in the 

 Island of Formosa; and specimens sent by him to the late Dr. 

 Hance (H.B.M. Vice-Consul, Whampoa) form the subject 

 of one of the last published contributions made to Botany 

 by that lamented gentleman. Mr. Ford also sent living 



Wallicb in bis Catalogue gives Nepal as the native country of this species, but 

 Mr. Clarke, in the "Flora ot British India," probably discrediting Wallich's locality, 

 confines it to the Khasia Mountains, where I have gathered it abundantly. It 

 may, however, very well occur in both countries. 

 feb. 1st, 1888. 



