STACHYS* Salvia. 

 Sage-leaved Stacliys. 



DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Labiate. 



STACHYS. — SnprH, vol. 13. fol 1080. 



S. salvice; foliis cordato-sagittatis obtusis crenatis rugosis tomentosis, verti- 

 cillastris 3-floris subspicatis, corollse labio inferiore ovato, caule fruticoso. 

 Caulis fruticosus, tetragonus, tomentosus. Folia oblonga, obtusa, 



crenata, rugosn, tomentosa, inferiora sagittata, petiolata, superiora cordata, 



sessilia. Verticillastra triflora. Calyx tomentosus, pungens, 5-dentatus. 



Corolla pubescens, purpurea, tubo incurvo, limbi labio superiore emarginato, 



inferioris laciniis ovatis, subcBqualibiis. 



This plant, which, like many others from the same 

 country, has never before found its station in the records 

 of science, is a native of the neighbourhood of Valparaiso, 

 where it was gathered in flower by Mr. James M'Rae, in 

 February 1825. Seeds were brought by him to the Horti- 

 cultural Society, in whose Garden our drawing was made 

 in August 1828. 



It forms a handsome half-shrubby plant, about 3 feet 

 high; but is more remarkable as a Botanical curiosity than 

 as an object of Horticultural interest. 



Stem shrubby, 4-cornered, downy. Leaves oblong, 

 obtuse, crenated, rugose, downy, the lower sagittate, 

 stalked, the upper cordate, sessile. Whorls 3-flowered. 

 Calyx downy, pungent, 5-toothed. Corolla pubescent, 

 purple, with a curved tube, with the upper lip of the limb 

 emarginate, and the segments of the lower lip ovate, nearly 

 equal. J. L. 



* The Greeks had a plant they called (rT«;,i«?, which was probably our 

 Stachys germanica : the meaning of the word is literally spike, and has refer- 

 ence to the mode of inflorescence of some species. 



