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Salvia bracteata. Long-bracted 

 Sage or Clary. 



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C/«ss «raf Order. 



DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character, 

 Cot. ingqualis. Filamenta transverse pedicel io aflixa. 



Specific Character. 



Salvia bracteata; bracteis concavis aristatis flore longio- 

 ribus coloratis ; summis sterilibus, galea falcata emar- 

 ginata, foliis ovatis rugosis repando-crenatis. 



Desc. Stem upright, rteid, square with rounded angles^ 

 branched, covered with pellucid hairs. Leaves ovate-acu- 

 minate, crenate-sinuate : uppermost ones entire. Flowers 

 in distant, about six -flowered whorls ,• each whorl supported 

 by two ovate-acuminate, concave, streaked bractes, longer 

 than the flowers, greenish at the base, rose-coloured to- 

 wards the apex which terminates in a filiform awn. Calyx 

 5-toothed : teeth awned, not pungent while fresh, bilabiately 

 arranged : intermediate tooth of the upper-lip almost ob- 

 solete. Corolla ringent : upper-lip falcate, emarginate, con- 

 cave, of a bright violet colour, hairy and studded with 

 pellucid dote : lower-lip 3-lobed ; middle lobe round, 

 emarginate, white but soon turning brown ; lateral lobes 

 pale violet. Stamens inclosed. Filaments club-shaped at 

 the lower extremity, and thence tapering in a semicircular 

 curve to a point, bearing a violet coloured anther, with 

 white pollen ; this filament is fixed by a moveable joint 

 near the broad extremity to a short upright pedicle. 'Style 

 exsertedi lower segment of the stigma shorter by half 

 than the upper. 



