Salvia lanceolata Lam.

Much branched shrub 1-2 m tall; stems finely tomentulose, glabrescent, often reddish brown. Leaves petiolate; blade simple, thick-textured, linear-elliptic to ovate-oblong or oblanceolate, 10-35 x 5-20 mm, with a short dense greyish tomentum or with a sparse indumentum of short broad hairs mainly on the veins and leaf margin, gland-dotted, apex acute, base cuneate to hastate-auriculate, margin entire or irregularly crenate-dentate. Inflorescence usually branched, each branch with 3-5 verticils; verticils 2(-4)-flowered; bracts obovate, acuminate, soon deciduous. Calyx fairly densely glandular-hispid, expanding to broad-campanulate, 25 mm long and purplish in fruit. Corolla dull rose to brownish crimson or grey-blue, 25-35 mm long; upper lip straight or slightly falcate, c. 17 mm long; lower lip c. 13 mm long.