or INDIAN SAGE, in botany: A genus of the angiospermia order, belonging to the didynamia clas of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 40th order, Perforate. The calyx is indistinctly quadridentated; the stigma as it were broken and turned back like a hoof; the fruit is a plum with a bilocular kernel. There are several species, consisting of shrubby exotics from Africa and America for the green-house or stove; growing to the height of a yard or two, and adorned with oblong, oval, and roundish simple leaves, with monopetalous, tubular, four-parted flowers of different colours. They may be propagated either by seeds or cuttings — The camera, or wild sage, is remarkable for the beauty of its flowers; which are yellow, tinged with red. The involucrata, or sea-side sage, has small ash-coloured leaves and a most agreeable smell. They are both natives of the West Indies, the former growing wild among the bushes, and the latter found near the sea. Their leaves, particularly those of the sea-side sage, are used by the black people in teas for colds, rheums, and weakness of the stomach.—There are seven other species.