72 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 
all the winter in the conservatory. S. Befheli has bril- 
liant searlet flowers ; 8. splendens Bruanti also has scarlet 
flowers; S. //oreyi has flowers of an exquisite tone of violet 
or satiny purple. These four may be considered the most 
useful of all the salvias in cultivation. 
A few other kinds deserve mention. 8S. fréco/or isa sweet 
little gem, with white tube and mouth, and the upper lip 
purple, the lower lip scarlet—a bit of Nature’s fancy work 
in painting that appears intended to mock the human 
painters of flowers. Thirty years ago we used to see in 
the gardens two curious salvias, named respectively 8. 
bracteata and S. horminum, which are remarkable because 
their conspicuous features are their coloured bracts, the 
flowers of both being blue. 
