A hardy perennial ; raised from seeds received from 

 Russia in the garden of Mr. Kent at Clapton, where it 

 flowered in July 1820, and has survived the twcH last 

 winters in the open border. It is a remarkable fine plant 

 from the large rose coloured bractes and blue and white 

 flowers, yet as far as we have been able to extend our 

 researches, appears to us to be undeseribed. It approaches 

 however to Salvia Sclarea, in the figure of which in the 

 Flora graeca, the bractes are slightly tinged at the margins 

 with the same colour. But our plant differs in having the 

 bractes, and teeth of the calyx more elongated ; the upper- 

 lip of the corolla narrower, longer^ and of a violet instead 

 of pink colour ; in the filament being more curved, which 

 in Sclarea is only turned up at the point 



