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SALVIA splendens. 
Lee’s Scarlet Sage. 
_DIANDRIA MONOGYNLA. ¢ 
Nat. ord. Lasrarm. | Jussieu gen. 110. Brown prod. 1. 499. Sect. I. 
Stamina 2 fertilia; v. dum 4 fertilia, antheres omnium dimidiate. 
SALVIA, Supra vol. 4. fol. 347. 
S. splendens, foliis petiolatis ovatis lancedlato-acuminatis serratis, basi sub- 
cuneatis integerrimis, subtis glabris: corolla tubo elongato subtilissimé 
- Januginoso, labii inferioris laciniis lateralibus reflexis; stigmatibus ex- 
sertis styloque glaberrimis. 
Herba perennis, inferné suffrutescens, erecta, caule ramoso tetragono bi- 
tripedali, ramis striato-tetraquetris patulis virentibus. Folia membranacea, 
lenta, petiolo longiora, decussato-distantia, patentia v. divaricata, ovata, 
lanceolato-acuminata, serrata, basi cuneata integra, supra setulis minutis 
(in sicco candicantibus, vix alids nist oculo armato manifesta) vagis con- 
spersa, subtis glabra prominentér nervosa, majora triuncialia cum latiiudine 
biunciali: petioli graciles. acemi terminales, oblongi, pyramidatt, tott 
coccineo-fulgentes, sesunciales v. ultra; verticilli divaricatt.6-2-flori; flores 
‘pedicellati, longitudinem biuncialem excedentes : bractew erecte, calyce con- 
colores et duplo feré longiores, lanceolate, caudato-acuminate acuminis la- 
teribus reflexis, caduce, extis villose. Cal. coccineus, oblongus, ampliusculus, 
infundibuliformis, uncialis, angulato-plicatus angulis hirsutius ciliatis, supra 
bilabiato-jissus, labium superius indivisum aciminatum, inferius 2-fidum  lo- 
bulis acuminatis patulis: pedicelli hirsuti flore multoties breviores. Cor. la- 
nugine brevissima pubens, tubuloso-elongata, rectiuscula ; faux cylindrica labio 
superiore quatér fer longior: labium superius rectum oblongum obtusum indi- 
visum; inferius, brevius, tripartitum, laciniis lateralibus oblongis obtusis 
reflexis, medid admodim latiore subrotunda concavé recta. Fail*. glabra, alba. 
Styne paulo exsertus, glaber ; stigmatibus 2 filiformi-subulatis, replicatis, 
glabris. 
___ Introduced by Mr. Lee from the Brazils into the Ham- 
_ mersmith Nursery, where the plant flowers freely in the hot- 
house and for a long time in succession. ' 
Recently observed by Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neu- 
wied, and mentioned in his travels by the name we have 
adopted, but without description. ‘There are native samples 
collected by Mr. Sello, in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium. 
The species comes near to the Mexican Sauvia tubifera, 
but there the flowers are upright and narrower, the leaves 
grey-furred underneath and smooth above, and the style 
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