Tab. 6300. 
SALVIA Schimperi. 
Native of Abyssinia. 
Nat. Orel. Labiate. — Tribe Monakdeye. 
Genus Salvia, L. ( Benth . et Hooh. f. Gen. Plant . vol. ii. p. 1194). 
Salvia. (JEthiopis) Scliimperi ; araneoso-lanata, caule robusto simplici, foliis 
ample ovato-lanceolatis acutis crenulatis basi rotundatis v. subacutis rugosis 
utrinque albo-lanatis, panicula virgato-ramosa ramis erecto-patentibus 
glanduloso-pubescentibus, foliis floralibus sessilibus late ovato-rotunclatis 
concavis acuminato-spinescentibus glandulosis ciliatis, calycibus tubuloso- 
campanulatis glandulosis nervis liirtis, labio superiore ,3-spinuloso inferiore 
bifido dentibus aristatis, corollse tubo calyce duplo longiore sub fauce in- 
flato, labio superiore compresso oblongo obtuso, inferioris lobis lateralibus 
parvis oblongis-intermedio sub-orbiculari, connectivis postice deflexis abrupte 
dilatatis, nuculis fere orbiculatis eleganter venosis facie obtuse carinatis. 
S. Schimperi, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 283. 
S. hypoleuca, Hochst. MSS. ( non Benth.) in S chimp. Herb. It. Abyss. No 1916. 
Abyssinia has not added many attractive novelties to 
European gardens, and indeed its vegetation seems to afford 
far less of interest than any other mountain regions in its 
latitude. Its low tropical forests present few or no Orchids , Bro- 
meliacece ) and other such stove favourites, whilst its dry rocky 
mountains have to be ascended to a very great height before 
even a temperate vegetation is met with, and there seems to 
be no Alpine flora worthy of the name. The subject of the 
present plate is a robust Sage, suited for the herbaceous 
ground, belonging to an Oriental group of the genus, and 
closely allied to the fine S. asperata of Kashmir (tab. nostr. 
4884) ; it was discovered by Schimper in the mountains near 
Axum, at an elevation of seven to eight thousand feet above 
the sea, flowering in October, and was introduced by Mr. Bull, 
who sent the specimen here figured to Kew in July, 1875. 
Descr. Root woody, as thick as the thumb. Stem two to 
three feet high, very stout, simple, obtusely four-angled, 
woolly or glabrate. Leaves few, petioled, five to seven inches 
june 1st, 1877. 
