$5 



SALVIA ARGENTEA. 



(Hoary Salvia.) 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



UN. \" KAN SYSTEM, 



No. 112. 



NATURAL ORDER. 

 lamiacejE, Lindl. ; labiate, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Salvia. (Lin.) Calyw ovatus, tubulosus, vel campanulatus bilabiatus ; labio superiore integro 

 vel tridentato, inferiore bifido, fauce intus nuda. Corolla tubo incluso vel exserto, aequali 

 ventricoso vel ampliato, intus nunc piloso-annulato, nunc nudo vel ad basin in latere inferiore 

 processibus vel dentibus 2 instructo ; limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore erecto vel rarius patente 

 recte vel falcato, integro vel breviter emarginato ; inferiore patente, breviore vel longiore, lobis 

 lateralibus oblongis vel rotundatis patentibus reflexis, vel contorto-erectis, medio plerumque 

 latiore integro vel emarginate. Staminum superiorum rudimenta nulla vel parva, claviformia ; 

 fertilia (inferiora) 2 prope faucem tubi inserta ; filamenta brevia, sub horizontalia, vel rarius 

 erecta, apice cum anthera articulata et supra articulationem plerumque breviter producta, 

 rarissime subcontinua. Antheree dimidiatse. Connectiva elongata, linearia, transverse cum 

 filamento articulata, antice sub labio superiore corolla? adscendentia, et apice loculum fertilem 

 linearem adnatum vel versatilem ferentia, postice deflexa vel erecta nunc loculum alteram 

 subconformem minorem polliniferum vel difformem cassum ferentia, nunc dilatata vel i-arius 

 brevissemc acuta, libera, vel ssepius variis modis inter se connexa vel connata. Ovarii discus 

 antice glandulifer, glandula lobis subaequali. Stylus adscendens, apice bifidus lobis nunc subulatis 

 sequalibus, vel superiore longiore, nunc inferiore vel utroque rotundato dilatato complanato, 

 stigmata plerumque minuta, terminalia, vel in majore parte loborum styli decurrentia. Achenia 

 ovoideo-triquetra, sicca, glabra, plerumque lasvissima. Benth. Labiat. p. 190. 



Calyx ovate, tubulose, or campanulate, two-lipped ; upper lip entire or three-toothed, the 

 lower one divided, the throat inwardly naked. Corolla with the tube included or exserted, equal, 

 ventricose or ampliate, sometimes with a hairy ring within, sometimes naked, or possessing at 

 the base of the inferior side two processes or teeth. Limb two-lipped, upper lip erect, rarely 

 patent, straight or falcate, entire or shortly notched ; lower lip patent, shorter or longer, having 

 the side lobes oblong, or rounded, patent, reflexed, or contorted-erect ; the middle lobe mostly 

 broader, either entire or notched. The rudiments of the upper stamens none, or small, and club- 

 shaped ; the fertile ones (inferior) 2, inserted near to the throat of the tube. Filaments short, 

 somewhat horizontal, or rarely erect, articulated at the apex with the anther, and above- the 

 articulation generally shortly elongated, very rarely somewhat continuous. Anthers dimidiate. 

 Connective elongated, linear, transversely articulated with the filament in front ascending under 

 the upper lip of the corolla, and bearing at the apex a fertile linear cell, which is either adnate 

 or versatile, behind duplexed or erect, sometimes bearing another small cell somewhat of the 

 same form, less, bearing pollen, or sometimes of a different form and sterile, sometimes dilated, 

 or rarely very short, acute, free, or frequently connected, or joined in various ways with each 



other. Disc of the ovarium bearing glands in the front, glands somewhat equal to the lobes. 

 Style ascending, divided at the apex, lobes sometimes subulate equal, or the upper one the 



