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CHAPTER XXXIX. 
LABIATaE. 
Essential Character. —Calyx persistent, 5-cleft, or five to ten- 
toothed, regular or bilabiate. Corolla monopetalous, tubular, with a 
bilabiate limb. Stamens 4, didynamous, two of which are sometimes 
sterile, inserted under the sinuses of the lower lip. Stigma bifid. 
Fruit of 4 or fewer distinct acheuia. Albumen usually wanting. 
Leaves opposite, and exstipulate. Flowers opposite, verticillate, or 
capitate, or spicate; racemose or solitary; axillary or terminal.— 
(G. Don.) 
GENUS I. 
SALVIA, Lin. THE SAGE. 
Lin. Syst. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —Connective drawn out under the insertion, and naked or bearing a cell behind.—(G. Don.) 
1.—SALVIA FOLIOSA, Benth. THE LEAFY SAGE. 
Synonymes.— S. rhombifolia, Ruiz et Pavon ; S. pilosa, Vahl. 
Engravings_ Bot. Reg. t. 1429 ; and onrjig. 5, in Plate 39. 
Specific Charactfr _Stem herbaceous, erect, branched, pubescent; 
leaves petiolate, broad-ovate, or rhomboid, subcordate at the base, 
pubescent; floral leaves ovate-lanceolate, deciduous ; racemes simple, 
few-flowered ; whorls about 6-flowered, remote ; calyx ovate, pubes¬ 
cent, the upper lip entire, and the teeth of the lower lip ovate, acute ; 
corolla half as long again as the calyx ; tube enclosed, ventricose ; 
middle lobe of the lower lip emarginate; style glabrous.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —A rather pretty plant with blue flowers, a native of Mexico, whence it was sent to 
England in 1830 by Mr. Graham, to whom we are also indebted for Salvia fulgens , and other handsome species 
of the genus. It is quite hardy, and requires no other culture than sowing, and thinning out the plants if they 
should come up too thickly. "We do not know where seeds can be obtained. 
2.—SALVIA HORMINUM, Lin. 
Synonymes —S. colorata, Thore; Horminum sativum, Mill.; 
H. coloratum, Mcench. 
Variety. —S. H. 2. rubra, the red-topped Clary. 
Specific Character. —Stem erect, villous. Leaves petiolate, oval- 
oblong, rounded at the base, or cuneated, obtuse, crenated, villous ; 
superior ones ovate-cordate ; floral leaves very broad, acute, permanent, 
Description, &c.— These plants are cultivated not 
which in the species are of a bright purple, and in the 1 
are common in the seed-shops, and when once sown, tin 
THE PURPLE-TOPPED CLARY. 
rather than longer than the calyxes ; uppermost ones membranaceously 
dilated, coloured, comosc. Racemes simple. Whorls distant, about 
6-flowered. Calyx pubescent, reflexed in the mature state, and pli- 
cately striated ; teeth of the lower lip lanceolate, acute. Corolla one- 
half longer than the calyx, with an enclosed tube.—(G. Don.) 
for their flowers, hut for the vivid colour of their bracteas, 
variety, pink. The flowers are quite insignificant. Seeds 
3 plants require no after culture. 
OTHER ANNUAL SPECIES OF SALVIA. 
S. VIRIDIS, Lin. 
This species closely resembles the purple and red-topped Clary, except that its bracteas are of a vivid light 
green. The flowers are small and blue. It is a native of the shores of the Mediterranean, in dry, gravelly 
places, and was introduced in 1759. 
S. LANCEOLATA, mild. 
A native of Mexico, with narrow leaves and blue flowers ; introduced in 1813. 
There are several other species marked as annuals in botanical books, but most of them have not been intro¬ 
duced , the others are, properly speaking, biennials, as they never flower till the second year after sowing. 
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