eruenta, and in the colour of the blossoms, which are of a 
more or less intense blue. The one here figured he con- 
siders the handsomest of them all, and certainly few plants 
can be more lovely. 
Descr. Stem from two to three feet high, square, pu- 
bescenti-hirsute. Leaves on long, grooved footstalks, large, 
hastate, serrated, downy and ciliated, reticulated, smaller 
upwards. Spikes of flowers elongated. Bracteas linear- 
lanceolate. _Pedicels_ solitary, opposite, one - flowered. 
Flower very large, perhaps the largest of the Genus. Calyx 
green, sometimes tinged with purple, two-lipped, upper lip 
bifid, lower trifid. Corolla as described in the specific 
character :—there are three white, transverse bands at the 
base of the lower lip. 
