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distinguislicd by its much taller stem, covered \rith long spreading hairs (neglected by our artist) not 
hoary with short down, by its larger leaves, and by the upper lip of the corolla being rather longer, 
Mr. Bcntham quotes, as a synonjm without doubt, the plate 2864 of the '' Botanical Magazine,'' 
where, under the name of Salvia psetidococeineaj is figured a Trinidad plant obtained from the late 
Baron de Schach. If this was really taken from a specimen of this species, it must be confessed that 
it conveys no idea of it ; for the blunt heart-shaped leaves, thin inflorescence, and shaggy flowers 
beyond wliich the stamens hardly project, are altogether at variance with S. psendococcinea, as is the 
representation of the abortive connective of the anthers. We suspect that the figm'e was really 
taken from a small specimen of Salvia elegans of VahL 
The stem of this plant grows about three or four feet high, in a conservatory, and forms a large 
branched bush; the sides, near the setting on of the leaves, are dotted with long white hairs. The 
leaves have a rich deep green colour, grey on the underside, and are always drawn to a point : we 
have never found them blunt. The flowers appear in great profusion, at the end of the branches, in 
the cheerless month of November, when their brilliant colour renders them most welcome. Their 
corolla is somewhat curved, but if straight would present the figure of a nearly true cone, as far as 
the divisions of the limb : it is covered with close soft hair, not observable without a magnifjing 
glass. Tlie abortive connectives of the anthers are rather shorter than the other half, linear, obtuse, 
a little inclined to hook at the point, pink, and adhere slightly by a few minute hairs produced on 
their contiguous edges. 
