[Plate 40.] 
THE FALSE SCARLET SAGE. 
(SALVIA PSEUDOCOCCINEA.) 
A beautiful Greenhouse Herbaceous Plant, from S. America, belonging to the Natural Order of Labiates 
specific CTjaracter. 
TEE FALSE SCARLET SAGE.— Stem panicled, with 
spreading hairs, especially near the joints. Leaves 
stalked, somewhat heart-shaped, ovate, acute, crenated, 
glaucous or grey on the under side. Racemes simple. 
False whorls of 6 to 10 flowers each, as if leafless. Calyx 
narrow, striated, with the upper lip entire, the lower 
3-toothed. 
downy. 
erect, undivided, the lower with three round divisions, of 
which that in the middle is broadest and emarginate. 
Stamens much projecting, with the abortive connectives 
linear, blunt, slightly adhering by the edges. 
SALVIA PSEUDOCOCCINEA ; caule pamculato patentim 
piloso prsesertim juxta nodos, foliis petiolatis subcordatis 
ovatis acutis crenatis subtus glaucescentibus, racemis 
simplicibus, verticillastris 6-10-floris subaphyllis, calycis 
angusti striati labio superiore integro inferiore 3-dentato, 
corolloe obconicse pubescentis lab. superiore erecto indiviso 
inferioris laciniis rotundatis intermedia majore emargi- 
nate, staminibus longe exsertis connectivis abortivis 
linearibus obtusis raargine coheerentibus. 
S. pseudococcinea : Jacq. Icones^ t. 209, Hooker in Bat Mag, t. 2864 (?) fide Bentham, Oenera et Sp. Lab.^ p. 290, 
et De Cand. Prodr, 12-343 : alias S. ciliata Bentham^ I c, p. 286. 
rvNH of the finest 
figiir 
It seems to be 
Mexican 
part of the wo 
Horticultural 
The specimen that furnished the accompanyin 
London seed-shop^ under the name of S. elegans. 
jpulc/iella in the form of its corolla^ which is nearly exactly obconical^ whereas 
below the contracted 
m that species the corolla is very remarkably innatca on the lower side, below the contracted 
orifice. Trom S. coccinea, apparently lost in English gardens, it is said by Mr. Bentham to be 
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