terminal, very long, clothed with numerous densely-imbricated 
orbicular-ovate leafy dracteas, tapering suddenly into a long sub- 
ulation, whence the specific name given by Vahl. Calyx tubular, 
curved, with five angles and five small but unequal teeth, the angles 
hispid. Corolla rich deep blackish-purple, with the tude curved, 
(downy within), the Zimé of five rounded or almost obcordate, 
spreading, nearly equal, waved lobes. At the upper side of the 
mouth is a bifid scale. Stamens situated at the mouth, two are per- 
fect, with short filaments and two-celled anthers, the anther-cclls 
diverging: and two are sterile filaments, wholly destitute of an- 
thers. Ovary arising from a fleshy base or gland. Style long, 
filiform. Stigma capitate, somewhat two-lobed. 
Fig. 1. Calyx, including the pistil. 2. Corolla, laid open. 3. Pistil:—smagnified. 
