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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Sal via continued. 



S. cacalisefolia (Cacalia-leaved).* /., calyx campanulate, the 

 teeth aristate-acurninate ; corolla deep blue, many times longer 

 than the calyx, having a very broad tube ; whorls two-flowered ; 

 racemes branched. June. I. petiolate, broadly deltoid, broadly 

 sub hastate-cordate at base, rather thick, pubescent above, 

 reddish or whitish and softly villous beneath. Stem erect, 

 pubescent. A. 3ft Mexico, 1858. Greenhouse perennial. 

 (B. H. 1862, 100; B. M. 5274; F. d. S. 2318.) 



S. Camertoni (Camerton's). fl. brownish-purple ; calyx softly 



landular-pilose ; corolla lin. long, the tube slightly curved, 

 ummer. I. petiolate, ovate or cordate-ovate, acuminate, rounded 

 at base. lin. to liin. long, crenate-serrated, ciliated, shortly 

 hispid above, paler and glabrous beneath. Stem 3ft. to 5ft. high, 

 sub-shrubby. Probably Mexico. (R. G. 125.) 



S. Candelabrum (candelabrum-like).* fl., calyx sharply ribbed, 

 tinged with purple ; corolla white, and striated with pale purple, 

 thrice as long as the calyx, externally hairy ; lower lip deep rich 

 violet, variegated and streaked with white at the throat ; panicle 

 terminal, erect, the branches spreading, each bearing a cyme of 

 several flowers. July. I. oblong-lanceolate, rather obtuse, Sin. 

 to 4in. long, crenulate, very loosely wrinkled, hairy, glandular- 

 dotted. Stem erect, 3ft to 4ft high. Mexico, 1845. Half-hardy 

 sub-shrub, exhaling a powerful aromatic odour. (B. M. 5017 ; 

 F. d. S. 1344 ; L. & P. F. G. ii. p. 161, 217.) 



S. canescens (hoary), fl., calyx tubular-campanulate ; corolla 

 purple, nearly thrice as long as the calyx, the tube shortly ex- 

 serted, the upper lip slightly falcate ; whorls remote ; racemes 

 branched, villous-viscous. July. I. lanceolate-oblong, entire or 

 sinuate-lobed, long-narrowed at base, wrinkled, above loosely, 

 below densely, white-woolly ; floral ones very broad, acuminate, 

 concave, persistent, rather shorter than the calyx. Stem 2ft. 

 high, white-woolly at base. Caucasus. (B. R. 1838, 36.) 



S. carduacea (Thistle-leaved).* fl., calyx long-woolly ; corolla 

 lavender-coloured, lin. long, its tube slightly exserted ; upper lip 

 erose-toothed or flmbriated and two-cleft ; lower one with small, 

 lateral, erose lobes, and a larger, flabelliform, deeply multiSd 

 middle one. July. I. oblong, sinuately-pinnatifid, Thistle-like. 

 Stem stout, simple, 1ft or more high, naked and scape-like, 

 only at base subtended by a cluster of leaves. California, 1854. 

 (B. M. 4874.) 



S. chamsedryoides (Chamsedrys-like).* fl. geminate or few in 

 the clusters of the raceme; calyx cylindricai-campanulate, iin. 

 long ; corolla blue, upwards of iin. long, the middle lobe of the 

 lower lip broader than long, obcordate-lobed. July. I. rather 

 thick, oblong or elliptical, on short petioles, more or less crenu- 

 late, obtuse, less than lin. long ; floral ones bract-like, caducous. 

 A. 1ft. Mexico, 1795. A much-branched, canescent and scabrous, 

 greenhouse shrub. (B. M. 808 ; L. B. C. 576 ; A. B. R. 416, under 

 name of S. chamcedrifolia.) 



S. cocclnea (scarlet).* ft., calyx lips half the length of the tube ; 

 corolla deep scarlet, lin. or less long, pubescent or puberulous 

 outside, the lower lip twice the length of the upper ; raceme 

 twiggy, the clusters few or several-flowered, and rather distant. 

 July. I. membranous, veiny, cordate or ovate, mostly acute, 

 crenate, slender-petioled, mostly soft-tomentose beneath. A. 2ft. 

 Central and South America, Ac., 1772. A greenhouse or half- 

 hardy annual or perennial, canescently pubescent or glabrous, or 

 hairy towards the base. 



S. O. major (larger). A tall-growing form, with somewhat larger 

 flowers than those of the type. (B. H. ix. p. 65; R. G. vii. 232.) 



S. O. pseudo-coccinea (false-coccinea). A commonly tall form, 

 with stem, petioles, and often floral leaves, conspicuously hirsute. 

 (B. M. 2864, under name of S. pseudo-coccinea,) 



S. ccelestina (celestial-blue), fl. very numerous ; corolla of a 

 soft lilac-blue. Summer. I. petiolate, oval-elliptic, shortly and 

 broadly rounded at the base, attenuated at the apex, irregularly 

 toothed on the margins. A. 2ft. Mexico (?), 1878. Plant whitish- 

 green or incanescent. A very floriferous, greenhouse perennial, of 

 robust habit. 



S. colorans (coloured). A garden synonym of S. splendent. 



S. Columbaria) (Scabious-like), fl. small ; calyx naked within ; 

 corolla blue, hardly exceeding the calyx, its upper lip emargi- 

 nately bilobed at apex the lower with small lateral lobes and 

 a much larger, somewhat bilobed middle one; heads many- 

 flowered. Summer. 1. deeply once or twice pinnatifld, or pin- 

 nately parted into oblong, crenately-toothed or incised, obtuse 

 divisions, muticous, wrinkled; involucral floral ones broadly 

 ovate, entire. Stem slender, 6in. to 20in. high one or two- 

 headed. California. Half-hardy annual. (B.M:6595) 



S. confertlflora (clustered-flowered).* fl., calyx reddish, ovate- 

 tubu ar, tomentose, woolly ; corolla reddish within, yellowish or 

 reddish outside, clothed with golden wool, half as long again as 

 the calyx; whorls numerous, ten to twenty-flowered; racemes 

 upwards of 1ft. long. August. I. petiolate, ovate-oblong, 3in. to 

 4m. long, slightly acute, crenate, somewhat decurrent, wrinkled 

 and appressedly pubescent above, densely rufous-tomentose 

 beneath ; cauline ones ovate, short. Branches rufous-tomentose 

 A. 3ft Rio Janeiro and Organ Mountains, 1838. Greenhouse 

 sub-shrub. (B. M. 3899 ; B. R. 1839, 29.) 



S. confusa (confused). /., calyx coloured, striated, pubescent, 

 the teeth all subulate-acuminate ; corolla whitish, twice or thrice 



Salvia continued. 



as long as the calyx ; whorls remote, many-flowered ; racemes 

 elongated. July. I. petiolate, mostly interruptedly pinnatisect, 

 wrinkled, whiter below than in S. interrupta ; terminal segment 

 large, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at base ; lateral ones one or 

 two on each side. Stem slightly woolly at base. A. 4ft. South 

 Europe, 1790. Hardy shrub. SYN. S. interrupta (S. B. F. G. 

 169). 



S. dichroa (two-coloured), fl., calyx |in. long ; corolla IJin. 

 long, the upper lip bright blue, pubescent, arcuate, the lateral 

 lobes of the lower lip pale blue, recurved, the mid-lobe white, 

 pendulous ; racemes 1ft. or more long, many-flowered. August. 

 ., radical ones petiolate, 6in. to Sin. long, oblong-ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into the petiole, sinuate-serrate, 

 with rounded lobules, pubescent ; upper cauline ones sessile. 

 Stem 2ft to 3ft high. Greater Atlas, 1871. Plant glandular- 

 pubescent (B. M. 6004.) 



S. discolor (discoloured).* fl. in long, terminal spikes ; tubular 

 part of the corolla dark purple, almost wholly hidden by the 

 calyx ; projecting lips of a violet-black colour. I. entire, ovate- 

 oblong, on rather long petioles, nearly 6in. long. A. 2ft. to 3ft. 

 or more. Andes of Peru, 1883. (B. M. 6772; G. C. n. s., xix. 

 p. 341, under name of S. mexicana minor.) 



S. elegans (elegant), fl. shortly pedicellate ; calyx campanulate, 

 glandular-villous ; corolla blood-colour, above lin. long (nearly 

 six times the length of the calyx) ; whorls remote, about six- 

 flowered ; racemes 4in. to 6in. or more long. Summer. I. petio- 

 late, ovate, lin. to liin. long, acuminate, serrate, rounded or 

 narrowed at base, slightly hispid, pubescent, or tomentose above, 

 glabrous beneath; floral ones sessile. Stem 3ft to 4ft. high, 

 glabrous or scarcely pilose. Mexico and Guatemala. Greenhouse 

 perennial. (B. M. 6448; Ref. B. 228.) 



S. farinacea (mealy), fl., calyx densely white-torn en tose, often 

 tinged with violet; lower lip of the violet-blue corolla with 

 middle division obcordately two - lobed ; inflorescence spike- 

 formed, on a long, naked, interrupted peduncle, of densely many- 

 flowered clusters. Summer. I. , lower ones ovate-lanceolate or 

 ovate, obtuse cuneate or rarely subcordate at base, serrate, on 

 slender petioles ; upper ones lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, some- 

 times entire ; floral ones subulate or ovate-lanceolate. Stems 

 numerous, in a cluster. A. 3ft Texas, 1847. (R. G. 1002; 

 K. H. 1873, 91.) 



S. Forskolei (Forskohl's). fl., calyx four to five lines long, 

 tubular, often coloured at apex, viscous-pubescent ; corolla 



long as the calyx, the tube nearly straight or 

 per lip emarginate-bifld ; whorls at length lin. 



, 



violet, thrice as l 



recurved, the upper . 



or more apart, usually two, rarely four to six-flowered ; racemes 

 elongated, nearly simple. July. I., lower ones petiolate, 3in. 

 to 4in. long, ovate, repand-crenate, auricled or lobed at base, 

 villous ; cauline ones few, sub-sessile, much shorter than the 

 calyx. Stem IJft high, leafy at base. Orient, 1800. (B. M. 988 ; 

 S. F. G. 21.) 



S. fulgcns (brilliant).* fl. showy ; calyx six to eight lines long, 

 tubular-campanulate ; corolla scarlet, nearly 2in. long, villous, the 

 tube exserted and swollen ; whorls six-flowered, nearly lin. apart ; 

 racemes 6in. to 12in. long. July. I. petiolate, ovate, acute, 

 usually lin. to Sin. long, crenate-serrate, cordate at base, 

 pubescent above, white-tomentose or woolly beneath. Stem 

 2ft. to 3ft. or more high ; branches numerous. Mexican Moun- 

 tains, 1829. Greenhouse shrub. (B. R. 1356; L. B. C. 1910; 

 S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 59.) 



FIG. 410. FLOWER OP SALVIA GESNER.EFLORA. 



S. gesnerseflora (Gesnera-flowered).* This magnificent garden 

 species has quite the habit of S. fulyens; but the flowers 

 are far more abundant and conspicuous, the upper lip of the 

 corolla is flatter and less shaggy, the tube is longer, and the 

 style is less feathery. A. 2ft. Columbia, 1840. Greenhouse 

 herbaceous perennial. See Fig. 410. (F. d. S. 2131 ; I. H. L 32 ; 

 L. & P. F. G. 47.) 



S. glntinosa (glutinous). Jupiter's Distaff, fl., calyx tubular, 

 one-third the length of the corolla ; corolla pale yellow, often 

 erted tube and an enlarged throat ; whorls 



, with an exser 



distant, loosely few-flowered. July. I. petiolate, ovate-oblong, 

 acuminate, cordate-sagittate at base ; lower ones often 7in. to 

 Sin. long, the upper ones smaller ; floral ones ovate, acuminate, 

 shorter than the calyx. Stem erect, glutino 



Europe and Central Asia, 1759. (S. B. F. G. 

 S. nubicola.) 



pilose, h. 3ft. 

 under name of 



