SALVIA BICOLOR. 
(Two-coloured Sage.) 
DIANDRIA. 
Order, 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, 
LABIATE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx f)vate, tubular, or cam- 
panulate, bilabiate ; upper lip entire, or tridentate ; 
lower one bifid ; throat naked inside. Corolla with an 
enclosed orexsertedtube, which is equal, ventricose, or 
widened, sometimes furnished with a ring of hairs 
inside, sometimes naked, or sometimes furnished with 
two teeth or processes on the lower side at the base ; 
limb bilabiate : upper lip erect, rarely spreading, 
straight or falcate, entire or emarginate; lower lip 
spreading, shorter or longer, with the lateral lobes 
oblong or roundish, spreading, reflexed, or twisted 
erectly, the middle lobe usually the broadest, entire or 
emarginate. iiwrimen^s of superior stamens wanting, 
or small and club-shaped ; lower two always fertile, 
inserted near 'the throat of the tube : filaments short, 
horizontal, rarely erect, articulated with the anther at 
top, and usually drawn out beneath the articulation, 
rarely almost continuous. Anthers dimidiate; con- 
nective elongated, linear, articulated transversely with 
the filament, ascending under the upper lip of the 
corolla, and bearing, at the top, a linear, adnate, or ver- 
satile fertile cell, and deflexed or erect behind, and some- 
times bearing another smaller cell , which is either fertile 
or difi'ormed, and empty ; free, but usually combined 
together, or connate in various ways. Disc of ovarium 
glanduliferous in front. Style ascending, bifid at top : 
lobes sometimes subulate, equal, or the superior one is 
longest, and sometimes the lower one or both are 
rounded, dilated, and flattened. Stigmas for the most 
part minute, terminal, or in the larger part running 
along the lobes of the style. Achenia ovoid-triquetrous, 
dry, glabrous, usually very smooth. 
Specific Character.— Siem erect, a little branched, 
clothed with clammy pubescence ; lower leaves petio- 
late, ample, ovate, deeply toothed, pinnatifid or pal- 
mately-lobed ; middle leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminated, deeply-toothed ; superior leaves sessile, 
lanceolate, all cordate at the base, and clothed with 
clammy pubescence ; floral leaves ovate, lanceolate, 
acuminate, reflexed. Racemes a little branched, elon- 
gated ; whorls distant, six-flowered. Calyx pedicellate, 
campanulate, striated, clothed with clammy hispid 
hairs ; teeth all subulate. Corolla three times longer 
than the calyx ; the tube equalling the calyx. Stamens 
exserted. — Don's Gard. and Botany. 
The plant, of which only a small portion is portrayed in the accompanying 
plate, is one of those ornamental objects which have been almost, if not entirely, 
lost to British cultivators ; and which, as it is too showy ever to have been dis- 
esteemed, must have passed out of cultivation from carelessness or accident. It 
appears to have been made known nearly fifty years ago, being marked, in the 
catalogues, as an introduction from Barbary in 1793. 
How long it has been neglected we have no means of knowing ; but, by seeds 
received from the north of India, Mr. John Standish, nurseryman, of Bagshot, 
Surrey, has re-introduced it to our gardens, and it will doubtless prove a very 
acceptable acquisition, being, as Mr. Standish informs us, quite hardy, and exceed- 
ingly handsome. 
It grows to the height of five or more feet, and Mr. Standish describes it as 
throwing up a flower-spike four feet high, which is covered with blossoms from 
