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Salvia of the Clouds. It grows about three feet high, with a square purplish stem, and rather small flowers, 
which are yellow, spotted with red. The leaves are rough, like those of the common sage. It was introduced 
in 1823. It is scarcely worth cultivating in gardens, as it is more curious than beautiful. 
2.— SALVIA FORSKOHLEI, Lin. FORSKOHL’S SAGE. 
Synonymes.— Salvia bifida, Forsk. ; Sclarea orientalis, Town. I Specific Character. — Leaves lirate-auriculate ; stem nearly leaf- 
Engraving. Bot. Mag., t. 988. I ; corolla decidedly helmet-shaped, with the helmet bifid. 
Description, &c, — This is a very curious plant, from the very singular shape both of the flowers and 
leaves. The flowers are blue, striped with white, and the leaves nearly all spring from the root. The species is 
a native of Greece, whence it was introduced in the year 1800. 
3.— SALVIA INDICA, Lin. THE INDIAN SAGE. 
Synonymes. — Horminum hirsutum, Moris . Sclarea indica, I Specific Character. — Leaves cordate, suh-lobed ; flowers verticil- 
Town. distant. 
Engraving Bot. Mag., t. 395. 
Description, &c. — This plant, though a native of India, is quite hardy in the open border in British 
gardens, where it grows to the height of four or five feet, and produces an abundance of its large purple flowers 
in the months of June and July. It is propagated by dividing the roots. It was introduced in 1731. 
4.-SALVIA CANESCENS, Meyer. THE HOARY SAGE. 
Engraving. — Bot. Reg. for 1838, t. 36. 
Specific Character. — Stems woolly at the base ; leaves lanceo- 
late-oblong, entire or sinuately lobed, narrowed a long way at 
the base, wrinkled, loosely clothed above, but densely beneath with 
white wool ; floral leaves very broad, acuminated, concave, permanent. 
rather shorter than the calyxes ; racemes branched, clothed with 
clammy villi ; whorls remote ; calyx tubularly campanulate ; teeth of 
lower lip lanceolate, acuminated ; corolla about three times longer than 
the calyx, the tube a little exserted. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. — This species is a native of Mount Caucasus, where it is found growing among rocks. 
The leaves are covered with wool ; but the flower-stems and calyxes are covered with a glutinous green hair, 
which forms a striking contrast to the whiteness of the leaves. The plant grows to a considerable height, and 
the stem, though slender, is very much branched at the top. The flowers are rather small, and of a dark purph 
The species was introduced in 1837. 
5.— SALVIA BICOLOR, Willd. 
Synonyme. — S. crassifolia, Cav. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag., t. 1774 ; and Paxt. Mag. of Bot., vol. 
ix., p. 271. 
Specific Character. — Stem erect, a little branched, clothed with 
clammy pubescence ; lower leaves petiolate, ample, ovate, deeply- 
toothed, pinnatifid, or palmately-lobed ; middle leaves petiolate, 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, deeply-toothed ; superior leaves sessile, 
THE TWO-COLOURED SAGE. 
lanceolate, all cordate at the base, and clothed with clammy pubescence ; 
floral leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, reflexed ; racemea a little 
branched, elongated ; whorls distant, six-flowered ; calyxes pedicellate, 
campanulate, striated, clothed with clammy hispid hairs; teeth all 
subulate ; corolla three times longer than the calyx ; the tube equal- 
ling the calyx ; stamens exserted. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. — This is a remarkably strong-growing and handsome species ; but, unfortunately, the beauty 
of its sbowy flowers is but short-lived, as the snowy whiteness of the lower lip of the corolla very soon fades, and 
changes to a dingy brown. The species is a native of Barbary, where it was first discovered by Desfontaines ; 
and it proves a.hardy biennial in British gardens. The stem is quadrangular, and the leaves large and fleshy. 
It flowers during the whole of the summer months, and ripens abundance of seeds. It was introduced in 1793. 
