a pale brown colour. Stems shrubby, upright and much 

 branched, from two and a half to three feet high, but pro- 

 bably larger when grown in the open border. Leaves three- 

 lobed, or more probably hastate, rounded at the base, with 

 obtuse points, and finely serrated at the edges. Those of the 

 stem have channelled hairy footstalks, from two and a half 

 to three inches long, and are besides much larger than the 

 rest, usually measuring about four inches in length, and 

 nearly the same from the point of one lobe across to the 

 other. The smaller leaves have short footstalks, and are 

 narrow in proportion to their length ; the latter varies from 

 two to two inches and a half, wdiile they are only about one 

 inch and a half in breadth. All of them are of a deep green, 

 strongly reticulated, and densely clothed with soft hairy 

 pubescence. Bracts linear-lanceolate, three-nerved, and 

 about an inch long. Pedicels scarcely half the length of 

 the bracteas, round, and of a paler green than the leaves. 

 Calyx somewhat campanulate, two-lipped, both of them acu- 

 minate, and tinged with brown at the point. The upper lip 

 is larger and rather longer than the lower one, which is bifid. 

 The Flowers are produced in loose, erect, terminal spikes, 

 containing upwards of sixteen on each. They are large and 

 handsome, of a deep purplish blue, and come in pairs at each 

 joint. The upper lip, which extends horizontally, is much 

 arched and compressed. It measures about two inches in 

 length, from the calyx to the point, and its breadth in the 

 middle of the arch, from which it diminishes both ways, is 

 about half an inch. The edges are a pale blue. The lower 

 lip is three-lobed, and hangs nearly at right angles with the 

 upper, which it exceeds a little in length. The middle 

 lobe is the largest, and measures one inch and a quarter 

 across. It is round and spreading, somewhat undulated 

 at the margin, and notched in the middle. The lateral lobes 

 are revolute at the edges, and about an inch in length. 

 The opening of the throat is marked by three small white 

 stripes on each side. Stamens filiform, curved, and together 

 with the style, which is rather longer and more slender, 

 concealed by the upper lip. At the base they are slightly 

 gibbous, and unite into a small spathulate process, which 

 projects a little below the junction with the two bodies that 

 attaches them to the lip. Ovarium four-lobed, containing 

 one erect seed in each, and enclosed by the calyx, which 

 contracts at the mouth after the flowers drop. 



" The plant, perhaps, is seen to most advantage when cul- 

 tivated in the greenhouse, its large blue flowers being liable 

 to be injured by high winds, if exposed in the open border; 

 although, like the other Salvias, it will grow in any rich 

 garden soil. It increases easily from cuttings, or by seeds, 

 which are freely produced. In the course of a short time 

 it will no doubt become common." 



