the foliage, villous or rather woolly, upright, hollow. 
Leaves scattered all round, nearly upright, sessile, linearly 
lanceolate, shining, nerved, nerves ascendent and as well 
as the edge of the leaf woolly, half a foot long or more, 
about 2 of an inch broad. Касете spiked, a foot and half 
long, upright, leafy downwards, cylindrical, closely strown, 
the floral leaves diminishing from longer than the flowers to 
bractes shorter than these. Flowers horizontally nodding, 
about a third of an inch long, not much wider than the tube 
of a crow-quill: pedicles thick, woolly, three times shorter 
than the calyx. Calyx herbaceous, almost three times 
shorter than the corolla, bilabiately campanulate; segments 
oblong, obtuse, woolly at the edge, as to the rest smooth, 
the middle upper one a good deal the smallest, the 
two lowermost but little larger than the two upper side 
ones. Corolla rust-coloured, faintly funnelformed, on the 
outside glandularly villous, tube curved, compressed, aboat 
equal to the slightly widened faux or throat, segments 
of the limb obtuse: upper lip short, either nearly entire 
or completely bifid, with lobes about equal to the two 
sides of the dower Пр, the lowermost lobe of all broader 
than the rest and twice as long, rounded, with a woolly 
edging, marked on the inside by brown netted veins, 
Longer stamens about even with the corolla, two shorter 
ones confined within the throat; filaments grown to the 
tube, beset with glandular hairs, purplish below; anthers 
yellow, vertically two-lobed, incumbent or balancing, bent 
bierurally. Germen ovately oblong, somewhat trigonal, 
even with the calyx, beset with short headed hairs: style 
purplish at the base, yellowish beyond, somewhat bent. 
nearly of the length of the germen: stigma a sharpened 
point sometimes splitting transversely. ^ Capsule ovately. 
pyramidal, pointed by the persistent style. 
The drawing of this plant was taken at Mr. Knight’s 
nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea, in September. 
