Refugium Botanicum.] 
[September, 1870. 
TAB. 229. 
Natural Order Labiate. 
Tribe MoNARDEiE. 
Genus Salvia, Linn. 
Section Calosphace, Beiith. 
S. GouDOTii (Bentlu in D. C. Proclr. xii. 339). Fruticosa, erecta, ramis 
gracilibus sursum griseo-puberulis, foliis petiolatis ovatis acutis 
dentatis basi cuneatis utrinque viridibus haud rugosis subglabris 
vel precipue infra breviter griseo-pubescentibus, floralibus lanceo- 
latis vel subulatis deciduis, verticillastns laxis, inferioribus 5 — 8- 
floris, pedicellis brevibus, calycibus nervatis inconspicue griseo-pube- 
rulis labiis subaequalibus, superiors integro, inferiore bidentato, 
corollse coccinese extus pubescentis tubo e caljce paululum exserto 
sursum ventricoso, labiis subgequalibus tubo triplo brevioribus, 
inferiore amplo tridentato, staminibus haud exsertis, stylo barbate 
demum paululum exserto. — S. lantantfolia, Hort. Linden nonMart, 
et Gal. 
A native of New Granada. 
An erect shrub two to three feet high, with slender tetragonous 
bi'anches finely gray-downy upwards. Leaves green on both sides, 
paler beneath, herbaceous in texture, not rugose, ovate, acute, 
cuneate and subentire at the base, finely toothed upwards, gla- 
brous on both sides or finely gray-downy, principally beneath, 
shortly petiolate. Loiver bracts lanceolate ; upper subulate, 
deciduous. Flowers in copious lax racemes, the lower whorls 
five- to eight-flowered. Pedicels very short, finely gray-downy. 
Calyx five to six lines deep, tubular, prominently nerved, slightly 
downy, the lips reaching a third of the way down, the upper 
entire, the lower bifid. Corolla twelve to fourteen lines long, 
bright crimson, densely pubescent externally ; the tube about 
half as long again as the calj'x, ventricose after leaving it ; the 
lips subequal, four lines deep, the lower deeply three-lobed, with 
the lower lobe broader than deep and distinctty emarginate. 
Stamens concealed in the upper lip. Style pubescent, with the 
stigma finally exserted. 
Tab. 229. — 1, flower complete, viewed in front; 2, the same, viewed 
from the side ; 3, stamens ; 4, pistil : all magnified. — J. G. B. 
