Descr. Root creeping. Stem (in the specimen described 
nearly three feet high). Leaves (an inch and a half to two 
and a half inches long, one and a quarter to one and three 
quarters broad) ovato-cordate, blunt, deeply crenate, glan- 
dular and subglabrous on both sides, at first green on both 
sides, soon becoming purplish below; middle rib and dis- 
tantly reticulated veins prominent below, channelled above; 
petiole nearly as long as the leaf, channelled above. Bracts 
resembling much diminished, subsessile, subentire leaves ; 
bracteoles linear, subulate. Cymes erect, distant at the lower 
part of the terminal pseudo-spikes, approaching higher 
up, with many crowded, erect flowers. Calyces densely 
adpressed, subglabrous, subequal. Corolla (an inch long) 
agreeably perfumed, somewhat spreading, thrice as long as 
the calyx ; tube clavate, compressed laterally, grooved and 
veined, shortly glanduloso - pubescent, limb oblique, five- 
cleft, the lowest lobe the largest, crenate, and revolute, the 
others subequal, the two uppermost the flattest. Stamens 
didynamous ; filaments adhering to the tube of the corolla 
to unequal heights, the two inner the farthest exserted, the 
others nearly as long as the upper lobes of the corolla ; 
anthers dark, lobes parallel, pollen white. Pistil rather 
longer than the shorter stamens ; style glabrous, and co- 
lourless, except at the apex, where it has a faint tinge, the 
same as the corolla, its lobes subulate, spreading, subequal. 
Disk small, round, fleshy, supporting the abortive acheenia. 
Graham. 
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Corolla, laid open. 3. Ovary :—magnified. 
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