Salvia lanceolata flower profile

This Salvia lanceolata flower profile shows the calyx with upper lip resembling a sunbonnet over the corolla. To go with that, might the lower lip then be likened to a bib for keeping things neat while pollinators eat from the corolla? The obvious mouth part where the lower lip of the corolla sags, is too far forward for making a calyx bib in any way useful. And this may be taking non-serious matters too far.

But the two-hump corolla tube, reminding of the two-hump, Bactrian camel, is still a bit much for controlling mirth when gazing upon this flower. The front end of the flower is more florally coloured than its back end, and rightly so. Pollinators deserve respect! The front end is also smoother while hairy, the back end tougher looking from rough-surfaced vein ridges.

More to the point in learning something about this flower, the about white style is exserted downwards from the upper lip, its two unequal tip lobes showing where pollen needs to be delivered (Manning, 2009; Le Roux, et al, 2005; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Manning and Goldblatt, 1996; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org).