Sauvagesia
(named after Francis Bossier de Sauvages, 1706-1767, Professor of Botany at Montpelier, and a friend and correspondent of Linnaeus). ORD. Violarieae. A genus containing about ten species of stove, highly glabrous herbs or sub-shrubs, all tropical American. Flowers white, pink, or violet, axillary or disposed in terminal racemes; sepals sub-equal; petals equal, convolute. Leaves alternate, rather rigid, entire or serrulated; stipules pectinate-ciliated. The species introduced is a charming little annual. Seeds should be thinly sown, during March, in pots of loam and peat, and the young plants treated as other stove annuals.
S. erecta (erect). Iron Shrub; St. Martin's Herb. fl. pink or purple-red; sepals aristate-acuminate; petals obovate, apiculate. May to October. l. lanceolate, serrated. Stem branched, procumbent or erect. h. 6in. Mexico, 1824. See Fig. 421. SYN. S. geminiflora.
S. geminiflora (twin-flowered). A synonym of S. erecta.