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SALVIA STRICTIFLORA. ERECT-FLOWERED 
SAGE. i 
Class and Order. 
Dianpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lasiatz. ) ee 
Generic Character. 
Cal. subcampanulatus, bilabiatus, labio superiore 3-den- 
tato, inferiore bifido. Cor. ringens. Filamenta duo fertilia 
bifida, lobo altero adscendenti anthera dimidiata, altero 
Sterili, Br. ae : 
2 Specific Character and Synonym. 
Satvia strictiflora ; glabra suffruticosa, foliis firmis ovato-— 
cordatis obtusis venosis serratis subtus pallidis, brac- 
teis ovali-oblongis acutis calycibusque (tis sublongio- 
ribus) glandulosis, floribus erectis, corolla pilosa, stylo g 
staminibusque exsertis. ry teeleys 
Satvia strictiflora. Hook. in Bot. Misc. v. 2. p. 234. 
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_Descr. Plant three feet high, somewhat shrubby at the 
base, and there principally branched ; branches square, 
pale green, subherbaceous, glabrous. Leaves ovato-cor- 
date, two to three inches long, on petioles rather shorter 
than themselves, glabrous, obtuse, somewhat wavy, of a- 
rather firm texture, dark green above, and marked with 
deeply impressed nerves, pale beneath with prominent — 
nerves, every where glabrous. Raceme erect, much elon- 
gated in the native specimens, shorter in the cultivated — 
Ones, terminal. Flowers erect, opposite, subsecund. Brac-— 
teas deciduous, ovate, acute, glandular and viscid. Pedi- 
cels rather shorter than the calyx, glabrous. Calyx tubular, — 
Striated, clothed with viscid glands, two-lipped ; lips near 
