Tas. 6714. 
; SALVIA. poxntvrana. 
Native of Bolivia. 
Nat. Ord. Lasrarz.—Tribe MonarpeEx. 
Genus Satvia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1194.) 
Satvra (Calosphace) boliviana ; erecta, suffruticosa, cano-puberula, foliis ovato- 
a cordatis petiolatis rugulosis crenulatis, supra glabris, racemis pyramidatim 
NEN, paniculatis densifloris glanduloso-puberulis, verticillastris multifloris, calycis 
Nene purpureo-virescentis labio superiore ovato acuto, inferiore equilongo bicuspidato, 
corolla coccinea calyce quadruplo longiore glaberrima, labio superiore brevi 
ae porrecto obtuso concavo, inferiore vix duplo-majore breviter 3-lobo, lobis 
rotundatis. 
Pe a, 8. boliviana, Planch. in Flore des Serres, t. 1148. 
Under Plate 5947, the name Salvia boliviana will be 
found cited as a synonym of S. rubescens, Humb., Bonpl., 
and Kunth, a native of almost the same country, and so 
near an ally that, in the absence of specimens, the two 
Species may well be confounded, if indeed they really differ 
Messrs. Henderson, however, show that there are decided 
differences between them, as may be seen by a comparison 
of the plates. In habit, stature, foliage and pubescence, 
they are strikingly alike, as they are in the general 
characters of the inflorescence and structure and colour of 
_ the flowers; but the panicles of S. boliviana are much 
denser-flowered, the calyces larger with longer lips, and 
_ the corolla twice as long and straighter, with a smaller 
lower lip. Itis for the size and number of the flowers 
much the handsomer plant, and indeed few species of the 
Splendid genus to which it belongs can vie with it in the 
size, colour, and beauty of the inflorescence, though for 
size of flower it is far surpassed by S. longiflora, R. and P., 
the red corollas of which are four to five inches long: it is 
-& native of the Bolivian Andes at elevations of 10,000 to 
OCTOBER Ist, 1883. : 
- Specifically. Beautiful specimens of 8. boliviana, sent by — 
