Annual, 15-30 inches high ; dividing into branches im- 

 mediately above the crown of the root. Branches 4-cornered, 

 generally upright, sometimes recumbent for the lower half 

 or thereabouts ; leafy only at their upper extremity, closely 

 and shortly furred. Leaves opposite, spreading, near, sessile, 

 l|-2 inches long, 6-8 lines broad, shortly furred on both 

 sides; slightly indented at the edge. Flowers violet-coloured, 

 axillary, solitary: peduncles long. Calyx deeply five-cleft, 

 two segments closer than the rest. Corolla subbilabiate, 

 distended ; tube short cylindric ; faux vaulted ; upper Up 

 bipartite ; lower lip much larger, tripartite, the middle seg- 

 ment larger and enlarged at the base in the form of a slip- 

 per, rounded at the end. Stamens 4 attached to the tube of 

 the corolla : filaments unequal, shorter than the corolla, 

 slightly bowed and furred their whole length : anthers 2- 

 celled, yellow ; cells divergent, pointed. Germen spherical, 

 pubescent: style very short: stigmas pointed. Capsule 

 spherical, depressed, girded, at the base by the calyx which 

 becomes slightly fleshy, marked from bottom to top on the 



outside by 4 furrows, opening at the upper part into 2 cells; 

 both valves splitting at the top into 2 parts : seeds nume- 

 rous, small, wedge-shaped, attached to a fleshy receptacle, 

 with a pitted membranous coating. 



We trust to the work we have cited for all we have said 

 of our plant ; not having had an opportunity of describing 

 from the living plant. 



