Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

TAB. 6517.
SALVIA HUNS.
Native of Kashmir.
Nat. Ord. LABIATJE.•Tribe MONABDEJE.
Genus SALVIA, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 1191.)
SALVIA (Drymosphace) Mans ; herbácea, erecta, villosa, caule robusto 4-gono, foliis
longe petiolatis deltoideo-ovatis basi truncatis v. hastatis acutis v. acuminatis
crenato-dentatis rugosis, raceinis simplicibus v. compositis, verticillastris 6-floris,
calycis campanulati striati colorati glutinosi labio superiore integro truncato,
inferiore sequilongo dentibus triangulari-ovatis acutis, corolla azurea tubo
calyce triplo longiore subinflato, limbo brevi hiante, labio superiore brevi 2-lobo
lobis acutis, inferioris lobis lateralibus brevibus reflexis, intermedio late obcor-
dato pubescente.
S. liians, Boyle et Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. vol. iii. p. 373 ; III. Himal. Bot.
t. 757; Lindl. Bot. Beg. 1841, t. 39 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 276.
S. macrophylla, Tausch in Flora, 1842, p. 282 (?).
A very handsome perennial, of which seeds, collected in
Kashmir, were sent to Kew by Dr. Aitchison in 1877.
He describes it as growing profusely in grassy marshes,
at elevations of from 8,500 to 11,000 feet, and flowering in
July and August. It was first found by Royle's collectors,
sent from the Saharunpore Gardens to Kashmir, and
flowered at the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens in
1840, whence the figure in the Botanical Register was
made ; but neither this figure, nor Royle's, gives any idea of
the intense sapphire-blue of the corolla. It has also been
collected in Kashmir by Jacquemont and Falconer, and, as
one of the most beautiful plants of that botanically rich
valley, it can hardly escape the notice of future collectors.
Dr. Lindley describes it as " one of the gayest of our
perennials, in consequence of the striking contrast between
the white and blue of its large flowers."
The specimen here figured flowered in the herbaceous
grounds at Kew in June of the present year.
OCTOBEK 1ST, 1880.