Abstract: Salvia in China includes 78 species, 24 varieties and 8 for-ms of which 20 species have been studied both by light micros-cope and scanning eletronic microscope. The shapes of Salvia grains are mainly elliptic, spheroidal and oblate with 6 furrows, only few species with more than 6or 15 furrows. According to the research on sculpture of exine, 7 types of sculpture have been divided:shallow reticulum, reticulum with 2 types of size of lumina, two beds of reticulum, deep reticulum, disorderly reticulum, large reticulum with small lumina in it and reticulum with baculum. Based on the sculpture difference, exine thickness as well as furrow shape, structure of furrow bottom and size of pollen grain, these species can be distinguished from each other.