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but better name of S. Cardinalis, by which it was described 

 by M. Kunth. 



The stem is about 3 feet high, hairy, with rounded 

 angles, and two callosities at the base of the petiole. 

 Leaves rugose, cordate, ovate, crenated, hairy, on long 

 stalks. Racemes terminal, at first nodding, enclosed within 

 very large ovate, acuminate, concave, deciduous bracteae. 

 Verticillastri 3-fiowered. Calyx downy, coloured, striated, 

 2-lipped, the upper lip entire, somewhat recurved, the lower 

 rather larger, bifid, straight. Corolla deep scarlet, ven- 

 tricose, three times as large as the calyx ; the helmet in- 

 flated, villous, with inflected margins ; the lip nearly equal 

 to the helmet, smooth, 3-lobed; the lobes folded back, 

 the lateral ones ovate, with the intermediate one truncate. 

 Stamens 2, with very small subulate rudiments of two 

 others. Filaments short ; fertile lobe of the anther with a 

 straight subulate connectivum ; sterile of the same length, 

 deflexed, spatulate, pilose ; it is by the aid of these hairs 

 that the stamens cohere. Ovaria smooth, very small, 

 seated on a disk with a very large anterior fleshy tooth. 



Style villous at the end. Stigma unequal, 2-Iobed 



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