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THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
CHAPTER XL. 
LABIATE. 
Character of the Order. — Calyx tubular, regular, five-cleft, or 
five-ten-toothed, or bilabiate ; lips entire or divided. Corolla tubular, 
irregular, bilabiate ; superior lip undivided or bifid, lying over each 
other in astivation ; lower lip trifid. Stamens four, didynamous, two 
of wbieh are sometimes sterile ; filaments inserted under the sinuses 
of the lower lip and interlabiate ; anthers two-lobed, lobes usually 
divaricate ; but sometimes dimidiate, and therefore somewhat one- 
celled, with an obsolete division, and a continuous suture. Ovaria 
four, one-seeded, eonnected with the base of the style, seated on a 
glandular disk, and girded at bottom ; ovula erect. Style one. Stigma 
bifid, usually acute, sometimes unequal, or dilated. Achenia four, 
hidden by the permanent calyx, some of them generally abortive. 
Albumen wanting, or very sparing. Embryo erect. Cotyledons flat. 
(G. Don.) 
Description, &c. — The plants belonging to this order are so clearly marked by their flowers, as to be easily 
recognised, thougb some are extremely ornamental, and others are totally without beauty. Nearly all the 
species are herbaceous : the Lavender, Thyme, and other plants belonging to the order, which are generally 
considered as shrubs, having very little pretension to that character, excepting to the eye of a botanist. Though 
the flowers of many of the genera may be considered as pretty, very few of them are sufficiently ornamental to 
be cultivated in gardens. The name of Labiatse alludes to the shape of the flowers, in which the lips form 
a conspicuous feature. 
GENUS I. 
SALVIA, Lin. THE SAGE. 
Lin. Syst. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx ovate, tubular, or campanulate, bila- 
biate; upper lip entire or tridentate; lower one bifid; throat naked inside. 
Corolla with an inclosed or exserted tube, 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 
sideat the base; limb bilabiate; upper lip erect, rarely spreading, straight j 
or falcate, entire or emarginate , lower lip spreading, shorter or longer, 1 
with the lateral lobes oblong or roundish, spreading, reflexed, or twisted I 
erectly, the middle lobe usually the broadest, entire or emarginate. j 
Rudiments of superior stamens wanting, or small and club-shaped ; 
lower two always fertile, inserted near the throat of the tube ; fila- 
ments short, horizontal, rarely erect, articulated with the anther at 
top, and usually drawn out beneath the articulation, rarely almost con- 
Description, 
cookery. 
are not very conspicuous. 
tinuous. Anthers dimidiate ; connective, elongated, linear, articu- 
lated transversely with the filament ascending under the upper lip of 
the corolla, and bearing at the top a linear, adnate, or versatile fertile 
cell, and deflexed or erect behind, and sometimes bearing another 
smaller cell, which is either fertile or difformed, and empty ; free, but 
usually combined together, or connate in various ways. Disk of ova- 
rium glanduliferous in front. Style ascending, bifid at top ; lobes 
sometimes subulate, equal, or the superior one is longest, and some- 
times the lower one or both are rounded, dilated, and flattened. 
Stigmas for the most part minute, terminal, or in the larger part run- 
ning along the lobes of the style. Achenia ovoid-triquetrous, dry, 
glabrous, usually very smooth. (G. Don.) 
&c. — The common sage is a plant well known in every garden, from the use made of it in 
It is not, however, at all ornamental, as its leaves are rugose, and of a dingy green, while its flowers 
It was formerly much esteemed for its medicinal properties, and our ancestors had a 
saying, “ Why should a man die who has sage in his garden ? ” The name of Salvia is also derived from a 
Latin verb, signifying to save. There are numerous species in the genus, most of which are slightly shrubby at 
the base, and many of which have very handsome flowers. 
I.— SALVIA NUBICOLA, Wall. THE SALVIA OF THE CLOUDS. 
Engraving. — Sweet’s Brit. Flow. Gard., t. 140. i crenate, subcordate, rugose, reticulately veined; flowers verticillate. 
Specific Character. — Stem erect, quadrangular, branched in the in long racemes ; bracts ovate, reflexed, glutinously hairy, 
upper part ; leaves petiolate, somewhat halbert-shaped, oblong, acute, | 
Description, &c. — This species is found in the mountains of Nepal, in situations so elevated as to give 
a reason for the somewhat poetical name — bestowed upon the species by Dr. Wallich — of Salvia nubicola, or the 
