Sion House, in October, 1839, and flowered in the stove 
in May and June following. Its structure is very curious, 
and the generic character, therefore, remarkably distinct. 
Descr. Stem suftruticose, erect, branched. Leaves (three 
inches long, an inch and three quarters broad) ovate, peti- 
olate, bright green, paler behind, rough on both surfaces. 
coarsely serrato-crenate, entire and wedge-shape at the 
base, middle-rib and oblique veins strong and very pro- 
minent behind, transverse reticulations distinct, though 
much more slender. Spike racemose, terminal, much elon- 
gated, many-flowered, unilateral; rachis furrowed, pubes- 
cent with dissimilar hairs, most of these being very short, 
others longer ; bracts ovate, acute, reflected, green, persist- 
ing. Whorls four-flowered ; flowers arising in pairs from 
one point, but having no common peduncle. Pedicels as 
long as the bracts. Calyx ten-nerved, bilabiate ; the upper 
lip three-nerved, rounded, reflexed, entire, mucronulate in 
the centre, decurrent along the sides of the tube, between 
which narrow wings the tube is flat above; lower lip of 
four slender, subulate teeth, of which the lateral ones are 
shorter than the others, and broader at the base; nearly the 
whole of the calyx, as well as the pedicels, has similar 
pubescence to that on the rachis, and is reddish-green, with 
a pink tinge of the upper lip, which alone is glabrous. 
Corolla pale pink ; tube greatly exserted, covered with 
dense, uniform, pubescence, equal to the longer hairs on 
the rachis, compressed laterally, dilated a little upwards, 
but contracted at the throat; limb bilabiate, the lower lip 
spoon-shaped, slightly undulate, entire, projecting forwards 
in a line with the lower side of the tube; the upper lip three- 
lobed, of which the central is notched, the lateral ones 
being entire and reflected. Stamens four, didynamous ; 
Jjilaments glabrous, adherent along the whole of the lower 
side of the corolla, in whose substance they seem to be 
lost, free in the throat and there divaricated after shedding 
the pollen, and scarcely exserted ; anther—lobes divaricated, 
reddish, and applied face to face before bursting. Pistil 
intermediate in length between the longer and shorter 
stamens ; stigma white, capitate, style recurved a little up- 
wards at the apex, glabrous, and lying with the filaments 
along the lower side of the tube. Germen of four small, 
erect lobes, rising from a white, fleshy disk, which is much 
enlarged on the lower side, and curved upwards, forming a 
large, blunt, fleshy covering to the germen, notched at the 
apex for the passage of the style. raham. 
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ny fed. 1, Calyx from the side, and fig. 2, seen from the front: both mag- 
