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2. SALVIA INDICA. 



INDIAN SAGE. 



THIS genus contains plants of under-shrubby, herbaceous, and 

 shrubby kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Diandria Monogynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Verticillatac. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one-leafed perianth, 

 tubular, striated, gradually widening and compressed at the top : 

 mouth erect, two-lipped; lower lip two-toothed: the corolla one- 

 petalled, unequal: tube widening at ihe top, compressed: border 

 ringent, upper lip concave, compressed, curved inwards, emarginate; 

 lower lip wide, trifid, middle segment larger, roundish, emarginate: 

 the stamina have two filaments, very short; two threads are fastened 

 transversely to these almost in the middle, on the lower extremity of 

 which is a gland, on ihe upper an anther: the pistillum is a four- 

 cleft germ: style filiform, very long, in the same situation with the 

 stamens: stigma bifid: there is no pericarpium. Calyx very slightly 

 converging, having the seeds in the botlom of it: the seeds four, 

 roundish. 



The species cultivated are: 1. S, offidnalis, Garden Sage; 2. 

 grandiflora, Broad-leaved Garden Sage; 3. S. triloba, Three-lobed 

 Sage, or Sage of Virtue; 4. 5". sclarca, Common Clary; 5. S. argentea, 

 Silvery-leaved Sage or Clary; 6. .S. terbcnaca, Vervain Sage or Clary; 

 7. S. Indica, Indian Sage or Clary; 8. S. Horminum, Red-lopped 

 Sage or Clary : 9. S. gluthiosa, Yellow Sage or Clary ; 10. S. Mcxicana, 

 Mexican Sage; 11. S. Canariensis, Canary Sage; 12. S. Africana, 

 Blue-flowered African Sage; 13. S. aurea, Gold-flowered African 

 Sage; 14. S.pomifera, Apple-bearing Sage; 15. S. fonnosa,. Shining- 

 leaved 



