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SpHACELE LinpLEevi. LARGE-FLOWERED 
SpHACELE. 
Class and Order. 
DipynamM1A GYMNOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lasiata. ) 
Generic Character. 
Spaces. Benth. Cal. campanulatus, subequalis, 13— 
15-nerviis, venosus, 5-dentatus, intus fauce. Corolla tubo 
exserto fauce subinflata, bilabiata, labiis subeequalibus : 
superiori erecto, bifido, (vel emarginato) subplano; infe- 
riori patente, 3-fido, lobis lateralibus reflexis, medio bifido, 
laciniis reflexis. Stam. 4, sub labiis superiori ascendentia. 
Anthere hiloculares, loculis linearibus divergentibus.  Sty- 
lus apice subequaliter bifidus. Achenia sicca, leevia. 
Benth. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1289. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Spuacete* Lindleyi; ramis floccoso-tomentosis, foliis petio- 
latis ovato-lanccolatis basi obtuse hastato-sagittatis 
subtus tomentosis, superioribus sessilibus, axillis utrin- 
que subtrifloris. Benth. 
SPHACELE Lindleyi. Benth. in Bot. Reg. l. c. 
Stacuys Salvie. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1226. 
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Descr. Stem shrubby, four-sided, three to four feet 
high, branched, the branches downy, white and woolly in 
the younger ones. Leaves petiolate, broadly ovato-lanceo- 
te, crenate, wrinkled, soft and downy pile oe cake 
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_* From the Greek name of the Suge, to which this plant bears much re- 
semblance, 
