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SALVIA AZUREA. AZURE-ELOWERED 
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Cla/s and Order. 
Dianpria MonocyntA. 
Generic CharaGer. 
Cal. fubcampanulatus, 2-labiatus: labio fuperiore 3-dentato. 
Cor, ringens, Filamenta tran{verfe pedicello affixa. 
Specific Charager and Synonyms, 
SALVIA azurea; foliis lineari-lanceolatis inferioribus extror- 
fum ferratis cauleque glabris, calyce pubefcente breviffime 
trifido. Purjb Fl. Amer. Sept. 19. 
SALVIA axurea, Lam. in diar. Hif. Nat. 1. p. 469. Encyc.6. 
p. 625. Vabl Enum. 1. p.253. Hort. Kew. Epit. inter 
addenda, a 
SALVIA acuminatiffima. Venten. Hort. Celf. 50. t. 50. 
SALVIA anguflifoa. Michaux Flor. Bor.-Amer. 1. p. 1 5. 
SALVIA mexicana. Walt. Fl. Carol. p. 65. 
Descr. Stem quadrangular, fluted, with rounded angles. 
Leaves lanceolate, narrowed: at both extremities, diftantly and 
unequally fawed, minutely ciliated at the edge, dark green on 
the upper furface, pale on the under. Flowers in terminal 
whorled fpikes, whorls about fix-flowered, looking one way. 
Braées linear. Pedicles very fhort. Calyx ftriate, two-lipped : 
upper-lip minutely three-toothed :_under-lip bifid: teeth acute. 
Corolla large: tube the length of the calyx: upper-lip fhort, 
emarginate, pubefcent: under-lip three-lobed, dependent, 
fmooth: middle lobe very large, crenulate. Style bearded 
quite up to the bifid figma. A two-lobed anther at one end of 
the tranfverfe filament, and a blue fmooth gland at the = 
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