Desor. A pale green glaucous erect perennial branching 
herb, ten to eighteen inches high, with terete stem, and the 
flowering branches at first incurved, and then lengthening 
out into leafy racemes. Leaves one to four inches long, 
the lower obovate-spathulate, narrowed into a broad petiole, 
all green or spotted with white, smooth or with low small 
warts on one or both surfaces. Facemes six to eight 
inches long, densely clothed with leafy bracts; bracts 
ovate-cordate, subserrulate, acute or tip rounded; flowers 
one-third of an inch long, pedicelled, pedicels shorter than 
the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, very unequal, 
serrulate, dilated after flowering. Corolla-tube rather 
larger than the calyx; lobes ovate-lanceolate, at first 
conniving, then sharply reflexed, colours yellow and purple 
variously disposed. Stamens on the mouth of the corolla; 
filaments very short; anthers long, connective dilated and 
produced into a subulate point of very variable length. 
Carpels quite smooth, enclosed in the dilated sepals.— 
J.D. H. 
Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower; 2, calyx; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, top of style 
and stigma; 6, transverse section of ovary; 7, ripe fruit:—ad/ enlarged. | 
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