half an inch long, far acuminate with a point resembling a 

 small prickle, recurved at the margin, denticulately and 

 roughly edged, wrinkly veined and shagreened on the upper 

 side, thinly and caducously pubescent, villous and grey at 

 the underside, where the veins are varicose, very shortly 

 petioled: petioles glandular, thick, wrinkled, stipulate: 

 stipules 2, opposite, membranous, purple, linearly elongated, 

 extremely narrow, pointed, recurved and divaricate. Flowers 

 numerous, solitary, axillary, about the length of the leaves, 

 representing as they are placed along the bmnches long 

 spikelike leafy racemes : peduncles filiform, dark-red, slightly 

 villous, shorter than the flower, with two minute opposite 

 hractes near the calyx. Calyx turbinately campanulate 5- 

 cleft, with a very unequally bilabiate limb ; upper Up folded, 

 greatly the largest, subtruncately round, notched in the 

 middle of the mar^n ; lower Up 3-parted with small equal 

 subulate parallel recurved segments. Corolla about half an 

 inch long, purple and yellow, twice the length of the calyx ; 

 but we had no opportunity of observing it before it was 

 decayed. 



The genus has been named after Boissieu-Lamartinifere, 

 a french naturalist. 



