Wilson’s seeds by Messrs. James Veitch and Sons in their 
nursery at Coombe Wood, where it flowered for the first 
time in 1905, and was then regarded by Mr. Duthie as 
an undescribed species which he named S. brevilabra 
owing to his having identified it with a specimen in the 
Kew herbarium issued as Soulie, n. 97. This latter 
plant has, however, been described by the late Mr. 
Leveillé as S. Blinii, and although Dunn has reduced 
S. Blinii to S. brevilabra, it is not altogether certain that 
Leveillé’s plant is identical with that of Wilson. The 
plant which Leveillé had before him differs from the 
one now figured in having less coarsely toothed leaves, 
densely covered on the undersurface with a rather short 
grey pubescence. These features characterise specimens 
obtained by Mr. Pratt and issued as Pratt, n. 214, which 
are included in S. brevilabra by Dunn. There are thus 
certainly two readily distinguishable, if closely allied 
forms of Salvia to be found growing at elevations of 
10-12,000 feet in the neighbourhood of Ta-chien-lu, and 
under the circumstances it seems desirable to regard 
them as specifically distinct. Both species are equally 
closely allied to the Kashmir species, S. hians, Royle, 
figured at t. 6517 of this work, which differs mainly from 
S. brevilabra in having much larger corollas with longer 
lips, and in having leaves which are usually more regularly 
and less coarsely toothed. Plants of S. brevilabra, received 
from Messrs. Veitch under the name S. Souliei, have been 
in cultivation at Kew for the past twelve years. At 
Kew it has proved a hardy perennial, flowering about 
midsummer and ripening its seeds. The material for 
our plate has been supplied by Mr. H. J. Elwes, in 
whose garden at Colesborne, Cheltenham, it grows equally 
satisfactorily and has proved equally hardy. 
Description.—Herb, perennial; stems erect, about 2 ft. high, rather stout, 
sparingly hairy. Leaves of the crown and on the lower portion of the stem 
long stalked, the uppermost leaves more shortly petioled, all ovate or narrow 
ovate, acute, cordate or hastate at the base, irregularly coarsely crenate or 
twice crenate, sometimes slightly lobed near the base, up to 4} in. long, 
2-3 in. across at the base, green on both surfaces and beneath with a few rigid 
short hairs especially on the nerves; petiole of lower leaves over 5 in. long, of 
upper leaves t-1 in. long. Inflorescence over 5 in. long, branched at the 
; verticillasters }-2 in. apart, 2-6-flowered; bracts ovate, ovate-lanceolate 
or nearly orbicular, acute or acuminate, about as long as, or rather longer 
than the pedicels which are from ;},-} in, long. Calyx campanulate, about 
