[Plate 47.] 
THE GESNEEA-FLOWEEED SAGE 
(SALVIA GESNER.EFLORA.) 
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A magnificent Greenhouse Herbaceous Plant, from Central America, belonging to the Order of 
Labiates. 
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Sect. — Calosphace^ longiflone. — Bentkam, 
THE GESNERA-FLOWERED SAGE. The habit quite 
that of S. fulgens ; but the upper lip of the corolla flatter 
and less shaggy, the tube longer, the style less feathery, 
the flowers far more abundant and conspicuous. 
\LVIA GESNLR^FLORA ; omnino facie S. fulgentis, 
corollae galea planiore minus hirsuta^ tube longiore, stylo 
minus plumoso, floribus copiosioribus magisque con- 
spicuis. 
Salvia Gesnereefloi-a of the Qardeiis. 
rpHEEE is great difficulty in saying in wliat precise particulars this differs botaiiically from S.fi 
same 
horticultural 
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ted out in the foregoing character. Nevertheless the 
' quite distinct. Tliis flowers all through the autumn 
The latter, handsome as it sometimes becomes^ is no 
Iff shabby and castine its blossoms. Tliis 
favourite on account of its incurably bad habit of becoming shabby and casting its blossoms. 
on the other hand is of vigorous constitution, holds its flowers as well as a Gesnera, after which it is 
-iUi 
Tlie 
Purdie 
formed 
