and deeply divided into two lips, the upper one entire, with three 
very minute points, the lower deeply two-cleft. Corowia of a rich 
blue, between two and three inches long, covered with short hairs on 
the outside, remarkable for its broad gaping mouth; the tube rather 
longer than the calyx; the upper lip, long, faleate, and erect, inclo- 
sing the stamens and pistil, the lower lip hanging with two lateral ob- 
long reflexed lobes, and the middle one large, very broad, and emar- 
ginate. 
Poputar aNd GroarapnicaL Notice. This beautiful species 
belongs to the same section of this numerous and widely diffused genus, 
as the greater proportion of American species, and to which on ac- 
count of the number of handsome ones it contains, the name of Calos- 
phace has been given. The section is characterised not only by the 
peculiar conformation of the anthers, but also by its Geographical sta- 
tion, the whole of the two hundred or more species being confined to 
southern or central America, or to the southern and western portions 
of North America. They there inhabit, chiefly, mountainous districts, 
and are most abundant along the great chain of the Andes, from the 
Rocky Mountains to the Chilian states, especially about the mining 
districts of Mexico, and in upper Peru. The subject of the present 
plate appears not to be uncommon about the mines of Guanaxuato, 
Real del Monte, Tlalpuxahua, &c. as it is transmitted from thence in 
most dried collections. G.B. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE Grown; CuLture. Although the Sal- 
via patens is said so have been cultivated some years since in the Bot- 
anic Garden of Berlin, it certainly never appeared in this country 
until last summer, (1838) when it was simultaneously raised by Messrs. 
Lowe, of Clapton, where our drawing was made; Mr. Page of South- 
ampton, and Mr. Pontey of Plymouth; in all cases it would appear 
from seeds transmitted to this country by John Parkinson, Esq. her 
Majesty’s Consul, at Mexico. It is probably, like Salvia fulgens, half 
hardy in our southern counties, and requiring the same treatment, but 
with especial care not to weaken it, or to suffer the raceme to lengthen 
so as to increase the distance between the flowers. 
Derivation or THE Names. 
Senge OS ancient Renae» ame for the officinal sage, said to have been derived 
from salvare, to save,on account of the medi¢inal Byers of the plant. 
Pikans sgrenaes or gaping, in allusion to the flow 
SynonyMeEs. 
Sarva patens, Cayanilles Icones, v. oe 33,t.454. Bentham : Labiotaram 
_ ies, p. 295. Horticultural Tra ransactions, 2nd Series, v. 2, p. 
Shirt sPECTABILIS. Humboldtand Kunth: Nova Genera et Species, v. 2, p- 
