bearded at the top, circumstances which separate it suffi- 
ciently from the species before us. 
Herb suffrutescent perennial with a two or three feet high 
4-cornered green-branched stem. Leaves thin and pliant, 
petioled, decussately wideset, ovate, lanceolately tapered, 
saw-toothed, cuneately tapered and entire at the base, 
smooth underneath, loosely beset at the upper side by ex- 
tremely short bristles which turn white in the dried plant, 
otherwise scarcely observable by the naked eye. Racemes 
terminal pyramidal, of a refulgent scarlet throughout, half a 
foot high. Whorls with from six to two flowers, shortly 
pedicled, divaricate: bractes of the same colour as the calyx 
and nearly twice longer, lanceolate, cuspidately tapered, re- 
flexed along the sides above, caducous, villous on the out- 
side. Calyx scarlet, oblong, funnelled, large, loose, about 
an inch deep, angularly plaited with deep-furred angles, 
two-lipped above; upper lip entire taper-pointed, lower bi- 
fid with pointed spreading lobes. Corolla about two inches 
long, tubularly elongated, scarlet, minutely villous on the 
outside, nearly straight ; throat (faux) cylindrical, nearly 
four times longer than the upper lip of the limb ; upper lip 
straight, oblong, blunt, undivided ; lower shorter, tripartite, 
lateral segments oblong blunt reflexed, middle one greatly 
wider roundish concave straight. Filaments smooth, white. 
Style shortly protruded, smooth throughout: stigmas two, 
filiformly subulate, recurvedly divergent, smooth. 
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