is here much enhanced by the large white spot on the lower lip 
and the red tinge on the tube. 
Drscr. A rather small, decumbent, herbaceous, glabrous 
plant, with a perennial root (according to Dr. Mueller), and tri- 
angular and furrowed stems and branches. Leaves rather dis- 
tant, an inch to an inch and a half long, ovate, deeply toothed 
and laciniated (sometimes almost cordate), tapering into a winged 
petiole about equal in length with the blade; upper ones gradu- 
ally smaller and narrower, and almost entire. Racemes terminal, 
leafy ; pedicels distant, erect, filiform, bearing one or two linear 
bracts. Flower declined, not inaptly resembling a Violet. Calyz- 
segments linear, as long as the broad ovate ovary. Corolla blue, 
variegated with white, and a red tinge upon the cleft tube above. 
Capsule semiglobose, drooping. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. 2. Side view of ditto :—magnified. 
