by Mr. Garpver, and differs somewhat from the native 
samples, in having the leaves rather more attenuated at the 
base, and the floral ones longer, more remote, and less 
resembling bracteez. In the native specimens, the flowers 
may almost be said to be in bracteated racemes. The 
flowers are extremely rich in colour, and a beautiful object 
for the microscope. 
Descr. Root fibrous, annual. Stems a foot and more 
high, branched from the base, hirsute. Lower leaves oppo- 
site, lanceolate, the rest alternate but approximate, small 
and bracteiform, floriferous, almost cordate at the base, all 
of them slightly hairy, ciliate and entire. Peduncles single- 
flowered, solitary, slender, hairy, shorter than the floral 
leaves in our cultivated specimens ; longer than they in the 
native specimens. Calyx small, two-lipped, of five deep 
segments 3, segments linear-lanceolate, hairy. Corolla, as 
in the Genus, with an inflated, saccate tube, the limb plane, 
of five, deep, cuneate segments, two forming an upper lip, 
the other three a lower lip, the whole of a rich purple, 
deeper towards the mouth, the upper segments sprinkled 
with velvety dots, the intermediate one of the lower lip 
furnished at the base with a hornlike process, rounded and 
biaristate at the apex. Capsule elliptical, two-valved. 
Fig. 1. Flower.. 2. The horn from the lower Lip of the Corolla: magni 
fied. 3. Capsule: nat. size. 
