Tas. 5017. 
SALVIA CanDELABRUM. 
Lustre Sage. 
Nat. Ord. Laprat#.—D1anpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4874.) 
Satvra ({ Eusphace) Candelabrum ; caule basi fruticoso villoso folioso, foliis in- 
tegris petiolatis oblongis rugosis utrinque villosis et subtus canescenti-to- 
mentosis, panicula elongata laxa, verticillastris remotis, cymis utrinque 
pedunculatis laxe 3-5-floris, calycibus pedicellatis campanulatis subbilabia- 
tim 5-dentatis viscoso-pubescentibus. Benth. 
Satvra Candelabrum. Boiss. Elench. p. 72. . 156. Voy. en Espagne, p. 480. ¢. 
136. Benth. in De Cand. v. 12. p. 263. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 3. p. 601. 
There may be species of Salvia with more gaudy-coloured 
flowers in Mexico, but none perhaps of all the 400 kinds de- 
scribed by Bentham is more beautiful (variegated or marbled, if 
I may so say, in their corollas with rich purple and white) than 
the one here represented, a native of the south of Spain, growing 
in mountain regions among Cistuses, and at the margins of vine- 
yards on the Sierra de la Nieve above Yunquera, elev. 2500 to 
3000 feet above the level of the sea. It there bears the name 
of Selima basta. It was discovered (and described and figured) 
by Boissier, who remarks of it: “ This magnificent species, which 
may be cultivated for its beauty, forms, in the section of the 
‘ Busphace, a small group along with S. divaricata of Mont- 
bret and Aucher, and S. Auchert, Bentham, both of them orien- 
tal species, and which it resembles in the habit and in inflo- 
rescence.” From these however it is readily distinguished. The 
specific name suggested itself to the author in consequence of 
the regular form of the panicle and its trichotomous branches. 
It exhales a very powerful aromatic odour. Our plant was re- 
ceived from Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich. With us it proves a 
hardy suffruticose plant, flowering in July. 
Dzscr. Stems square, erect, hoary, shrubby and branched 
below, very leafy, attaining, with the panicle, a height of three 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1857. 
