opaque, much longer than the intervals, spatulately lanceo- 
late with a bluntish point, I-nerved, veinless, faintly gray 
owing to a very short glandular fur, slightly fringed, nearly 
sessile but far-tapered downwards in a way to appear as if 
petioled, from about 3 of an inch to an inch and an half 
long and about 2 lines broad. Flowers few, scattered about 
the lower part of the branches, nodding, much longer than 
the leaves, peduncled, axillary, solitary ; peduncles filiform, 
slightly clavate, flexuosely declining, about the length of 
the leaf, twice shorter than the flower, smooth, bracteless. 
Calyx several times sborter than the corolla, herbaceous, 
5-parted, campanulate, with straight ovately cuspidate seg- 
ments, which are imbricate at the base but apart at the top. 
Corolla about an inch and an half long, red (purple spotted 
on a pale yellow ground and hairy on the inside), oblong, 
clavately tubular, from a globularly protuberant base pro- 
longed into a narrower somewhat compressed faux which is 
terminated by a longer unequally halfringent limb; upper 
lip of the limb oblong, straight, with the sides turned back, 
shallowly 4-cleft, segments pointed, two middle ones more 
shallowly parted from each other, side-ones slanting back- 
wards; lower lip much narrower, ligulate, entire, flat, mu- 
cronate, recurved, smooth above on the inside. Stamens very 
slightly didynamous : filaments inserted at the base of the 
faux, but little protruded: anthers pensile, veering, reni- 
formly didymous, cells connected along the upper rim, at 
the back of which the flexile point of the filament is in- 
serted: pollen white, granular. Style white, even with the 
corolla, slightly ascending: stigma a blunt rounded conti- 
nuous termination bisected transversely about the middle 
by a faintly downy seam. Germen green, ovate, amd 
beaked. 
