pale, almost white and tomentose, with prominent veins ; 
the base is cordato-hastate, with blunted lobes : the upper 
leaves become gradually smaller, sessile, ovate, and at 
length the uppermost ones are bracteiform. Flowers form- 
ing a lax, leafy spike, about three in the axil of each leaf or 
bractea, large, handsome. Calyx shortly stalked, tubuloso- 
campanulate, downy, and hence obscurely striated, cut into 
five subulate, rather unequal teeth, which are shorter than 
the tube of the corolla. Corolla a rather rich purple, 
slightly pubescent externally ; the rest of it as described 
in the Generic Character. Germen seated upon a large, 
greenish gland. Stigma bifid. 
This plant has been for some time cultivated in the 
greenhouses of the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh and 
Glasgow ; and at both these establishments it flowered in 
Autumn, 1828. Seeds were sent by Mr. CruicksHanks, 
from Valparaiso, to whom I am indebted (as I am also to 
the Horticultural Society of London,) for dried specimens, 
both of it, and of S. swbhastata and S. campanulata of Mr. 
Bentuam. 
The foliage of this plant would be considered by almost 
any one to belong to Salvia ; the flowers to Stachys or 
Betonica; from the former, my friend Mr. Benruam (to whom 
Botany is indebted for a new and valuable arrangement of 
the Laziar#) says, that it differs by the length of the tube 
of the corolla, and from both, by the large, campanulate 
calyx, and the cells of the anthers, which are neither divari- 
cate, as in Stachys, nor parallel as in Betonica, but linear, 
and divergent nearly at right angles with one another. 
—— 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla, with the Tube cut open to show the insertion 
of the Stamens. 3. Pistil and Gland.—Magnified. 
