Tab. 7372. 

 salvia macbostaohya. 



Native of Ecuador. 



Nat. Ord. Labiate.— Tribe Monabde^e. 

 Genus Salvia, Linn. ; (Benth. & HooJc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1194. 



Salvia (Calospbace) macrostachya ; fruticosa, elata, hirsuto-tomentosa, foliis 

 petiolatis ovato-roundatis acutia crenatis basi profunde cordatis auriculis 

 rotundatis imbricatis utrinque pubescenti-villosis, floralibus late ovatis 

 herbaceis calycem superantibus glanduloso-villosis persistentibus, petiolo 

 3-5-poIIicari, spicis densis, rachi robusto, verticillastris imbricatis multi- 

 floris, floribus sexsilibus, calyce paullo recurvo tubuloso glanduloso-piloso, 

 labio snperiore brevi ovato integro dentibusque labii inferioris acutis, 

 corollas pallida ccerulse tubo calyce aaquilongo, labio superiore oblongo 

 obtuso, inferiore longiore lobis lateralibus brevibus rotundatis, intermedio 

 multo majore late obcordato, connectivi ramo postico longe exserto 

 glabro quam antico lineari-oblongo duplo longiore, staminodiis 2 fili- 

 formibus apice furcatis, disco crasso antice ia processum carnosum 

 nuculas superantem producto. 



S. macrostachya, Kunth in Humb. Bonpl. & Kunth Nov. Gen. & Sp. PI. 

 Amer. vol. ii. p. 298. Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 273; et in DC. Prodr. vol. 

 xii. p. 322 ; et Plant. Hartweg, p. 243. 



A stately Sage, discovered near Quito, the capital of 

 Ecuador, by Humboldt, nearly a century ago, at an eleva- 

 tion of 10,000 ft., and more recently found in New Grenada, 

 near the city of Popayan, at about the same elevation. It 

 has also been collected by Hartweg in the valley of Cuenca, 

 a province of Ecuador, S.E. of Guyaquil, between 8000 

 and 9000 ft. above the sea, whence probably the error of 

 Tafalla, who is the authority for its being found near the 

 hot, insalubrious town of Guyaquil itself, on the seacoast 

 of Ecuador. 



The plant figured was raised from seed sent to the 

 Eoyal Gardens, Kew, from the Botanical Gardens of 

 Quito, in 1893, which attained six feet in height, flowered 

 in a cool greenhouse in the month of March, and formed 

 a very striking object. 



Descr. — Stem six feet and more high, shrubby below, 

 erect, strict, branched, hirsute with soft spreading hairs, 

 which are glandular on the inflorescence; branches stout, 



September 1st, 1894 



