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SALVIA PSEUDO-COCCINEA. HAIRY-STALKED 
ScarLetT SAGE. 
SEEK KEKE EERE EERE EEE EEK 
* Class and Order. 
Dianpria Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord. — Laziarz, ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. bilabiatus, 3—5 dentatus. Cor. bilabiata, lab. sup. 
galeato, inf. trilobo. Filamenta basi appendiculata (an- 
theras spurias sepe gestantia.) Caryopses 4. Spr. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Satvia* pseudo-coccinea; caule fruticoso, ramis pilosis, 
foliis ovato-oblongis (cordatisve) acutis crenatis pubes-. 
centibus, verticillis sexfloris subdistantibus, bracteis 
ovato-acuminatis calyce brevioribus. 
Satvia pseudo-coccinea. Jacq. Coll. v.2. p. 302. Hjusd. 
Icones, v.2. p.2. t.209. Willd. Sp. Pl. vo. 1. p. 1A. 
Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veg. v. 1. p. 231. et Mant. in 
vol. 1. p. 185. Humb. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 2. p. 239. 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 1. p. 58. 
Descr. A small, slender, shrubby plant, about two feet 
high, with upright, hairy, tetragonal branches, and oppo- 
site, downy leaves, which are petiolate, varying in shape, 
ovate or oblong, in our plants more inclining to cordate, 
deeply veined, the margin crenulated, the apex more or 
less acute. Whorls remote, of six flowers, having two, 
ovate, 
* Satvia: from salvo, to keep safe, on account of the imagined medicinal 
properties of some of the species :—pseudo-coccinea, from ¥évdns, that which 
puts on the appearance of, or is like SaLvia coccinea. 
