longer than the leaves, villous, as well as the pedicles, fili- 

 form. Cali/x herbaceous, furi*ed on both sides, several 

 times shorter than the corolla, small, crosswisely 4-cleft ; 

 segments broadly ovate, pointed, flat. Corolla the size of 

 a large pea, yellow, distended, nearly globular, attached 

 by the base to the semisuperior germen, minutely furred on 

 the outside, open at the upper side at the base : upper lip 

 lidshaped, of the same form as the lower but much smaller, 

 covering the aperture, convex, nearly orbicular, attached 

 to the calyx by the edge of its base as by a hinge, concrete 

 with the half-covered germen and conjoined at the base 

 with the lower lip. Siamens standing across and inclosed 

 within the upper lip, inserted between the two lips of these 

 at their union with the germen, bending towards the style ; 

 filaments longer than the anthers. , Anthers balancing, reni- 

 formly bilobuiar before they shed their pollen, purple and 

 shrunk after that. St^le bristle-shaped with a simple point. 

 Germen ovate, transparently frosted. 



