Befugium Botaniciun.] 
[Septemher, 1870. 
TAB. 228. 
Natural Order Labiate. 
Tribe Monaede^. 
Genus Salvia, Linn. 
Section Calosphace, Benth. 
S. ELEGANS {Vahl. Enum. i. Q38). Fruticosa, erecta, ramis gracilibus 
glabris vel sursum griseo-pubescentibus, foliis petiolatis ov-atis 
aciitis dentatis utrinque viridibus baud rugosis glabris vel precipue 
infra griseo-pubesceDtibus, floralibus sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis 
deciduis, verticillastris laxis, inferioribus 5 — 6-floris, pedicellis brevi- 
bus, calycis nervatis inconspicue griseo-pubescentis labiis sub- 
sequalibus deltoideis, superiore subiiitegro vel tridentato, inferiore 
semper bidenlato, coroUse coccineas tubo cylindrioo vix arcuato 
extus pubescente, labio inferiore deflexo superiore paulo breviore, 
genitalibus exsertis. — Benth. in D. C. Prodr. xii. 342. S. incar- 
nata, Cavan. Ami. Oienc. Nat. ii. 112 ; H. B. K. Nov. Gen. ii. 293, 
t. 144. 
A native of Mexico and Guatemela. 
An erect copiously-branched shrub two or three feet high. 
Branches slender, tetragonous, glabrous or upwards more or less 
densely clothed with firm spreading gray hairs. Leaves green on 
both sides, paler beneath, herbaceous, not rugose, ovate, rounded 
at the base, acute, finely toothed, glabrous on both sides in our 
specimens, but often more or less densely clothed with gray 
pubescence, especially beneath. Petioles of loiver leaves twelve to 
eighteen lines long. Floivers in copious lax racemes six to 
twelve inches long ; only the lowest pair of bracts leaf-like, the 
upper sessile, ovate -lanceolate, soon deciduous. Loioer tvhorls 
five- to six-flowered. Pedicels slender, subglabrous, under a line 
long. Calyx tubuloso-campanulate, two lines long, distinctly 
nerved, finely pubescent ; the two lips deltoid, subequal, the 
upper entire or shortly three-toothed, the lower distinctly two- 
toothed. Corolla an inch long, deep crimson, densely pubescent ; 
the tube cylindrical, nearly straight ; the upper lip two lines 
deep, the lower rather shorter, deflexed, faintly three-toothed. 
Stamens and style exserted. 
Tab. 228. — 1, flower complete ; 2, stamens ; 3, anther ; 4, pistil ; 
5, ovary, viewed in front ; 6, ovaries, viewed laterally : all magnified. — 
J. G. B. 
