bearing flowers almost from the very base. Pedicels half an inch 

 to an inch long, each with a small linear bractea at the base, 

 rarely forked. Calyx, as well as the pedicel, pilose and glandular. 

 Tube adnate with the base of the ovate hairy germen ; the seg- 

 ments linear, slightly spreading. Corolla white, beautifully mottled 

 with red. Tube rather short and gibbous at the base behind, 

 hairy ; limb oblique, two-lipped ; upper lip abbreviated, two-lobed, 

 with the lobes nearly entire, the lower divided into three lobes, 

 which are rounded and fimbriated. Stamens four, didynamous ; 

 the white antlers cohering all from the base of the tube of the 

 corolla and with a fifth abortive stamen between the two pairs. 

 Germen surrounded by a deep cup-shaped ring or disk. Style 

 included, curved. Stigma capitate, two-lobed. The fruit presents 

 two parietal receptacles nearly meeting in the centre and having 

 many minute seeds in the lower portion chiefly of the receptacles. 



Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil with annular cup-shaped disk. 3. Trans- 

 verse section of an ovary : — magnified. 



