Tab. 5860. 

 salvia interrupta. 



Ash-leaved Sage. 



Nat. Ord. Labiate. — Didynamia Gymnospermia. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5274.) 



Salvia (Eusphace) intemipta; caulft suffruticoso, ramis villoso-viseosis, 

 foliis petiolatis irregulariter pinnatisectis grosse rugosis subtus albido- 

 tomentosis, segmento extremo raaximo lateraliumque paribus 1-2 ovato- 

 oblongis basi rotundatis, segmentis aliis minimis rotundatis interjectis, 

 floralibus membranaceis deciduis, racemo simplici, verticillastris sub 6- 

 floris remotis, calyce tubuloso-campanulato striato villoso-viscoso, labio 

 superiore 3-dentato, inferiore 2-fido, dentibus omnibus acutis, corolla 

 calyce duplo triplove longiore cseruleo, labio superiore subhorizontali, 

 inferioris lateralibus reflexis intermedio 2-lobo, connectivo antice por- 

 recto loculo casso. — Benth. 



Salvia interrupta, Schousb. Beob. Marok. p. 7, t. 1. Jacq. Fragm. p. HI, 

 t. 90 ? HorL Kew. ed. 2, v. i. p. 65. Benth. in DC. Prod. r. xii. p. 266. 



A tall hardy herbaceous plant, with a woolly suffrutescent 

 stem, belonging- to the same set of sages with S. officinalis, 

 and many other handsome species that are common orna- 

 ments of continental gardens, but are all but wholly unknown 

 in our own. It was, according to the Hortus Kewensis, 

 formerly cultivated in the Royal Gardens under the name of 

 the Ash-leaved sage, having been originally introduced from 

 Morocco into the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 1798. It has, 

 however, long since disappeared from cultivation, and so re- 

 mained till three years ago, when it was re-introduced from 

 Tangiers by G. Maw, Esq., of Benthall Hall, during a 

 botanical expedition into N. Africa, from whence he sent 

 living plants to the Royal Gardens that flowered in May of 

 last year. From its habit of flowering through several suc- 

 cessive months, it is well worthy of cultivation in the open 



SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1870. 



