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SALVIA tubifera. 



Tube-flow ered Salvia. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Labiat^e, or Lamiace^e. 

 SALVIA. Botanical Register, vol. A.fol. 347. 



S. tubifera ; caule lierbaceo glabriusculo, foliis petiolatis lato-ovatis serrato- 

 crenatis basi rotundato-truncatis vel subcuneatis glabriusculis v. subtus 

 cauo-pubescentibus : floralibus deciduis, racemis simplicibus, verticil- 

 lastris subsexfloris secundis, calycibus subsessilibus tubulosis striatis 

 glabriusculis, labio superiore integro inferiorisque dentibus ovatis acumi- 

 natis, corollis calyce 3-4-plo longioribus extus glabris v. pubescentibus, 

 tubo longe exserto sequali subiucurvo, labiis abbreviatis, superiore erecto 

 integro inferiore breviore lobis rotundatis deflexis, medio integro, con- 

 nectivis postice breviter productis deflexis linearibus subclilatatis longi- 

 tudinaliter connatis, stylo barbato. Bentham gen. fy sp. Labiataj-um, 

 p. 298. 



S. tubifera. Cavan.ic. 1. 23. £.25. Supra misc. no. 40. 



S. longiflora. Willi, sp.pl. 1. 141. 



One of Mr. Hartweg's discoveries in Mexico, whence the 

 Horticultural Society received the seed. It has much the 

 habit of the old Salvia lamiifolia, otherwise called amoena, but 

 is greatly superior in point of beauty. It forms a bush about 

 three feet high, branching and well covered with leaves, and 

 at the end of every one of the branches there appear the long 

 racemes of slender purple flowers which are so disposed as to 

 form a drooping or curving ornament. In colour they 

 resemble those of such plants as Justicia elegans, and are very 

 different from any of the other Sages now in our gardens. 



Fig. 1. represents the curious stamens of this plant ; a is 

 a filament, by which they adhere to the corolla ; and the 

 perpendicular part from b up to the anther is the enlarged 

 connective, which directs itself upwards and downwards in a 

 narrow line, adhering at its base to the part of the other 



