surface, hoary beneath; veins very numerous, especially 
towards the base of the leaf, hoary on the upper surface; 
petiole two to five inches long. Panicle a foot or more long, 
pyramidal, leafless, ebracteate, densely studded with glan- 
dular viscid hairs ; branches ascending ; whorls rather distant, 
4 to 8-flowered, pedicels one quarter to halfinch long. lowers 
horizontal or ascending, one inch long. Calya obliquely 
campanulate, densely glandular-hairy, purple-brown; upper 
lip short, broad, acute or mucronate, reflexed; lower de- 
curved, longer, with two subulate segments. Corolla twice 
as long as the calyx, perfectly glabrous, scarlet, tube slightly 
ascending, of nearly equal diameter throughout, one-fifth inch 
wide; upper lip short, elliptic, straight, convex ; lower deflexed, 
with two short rounded lateral lobes, and a broad orbicular 
crenate emarginate deflexed midlobe. Anther elliptic-oblong, 
connective very long, flattened, slightly curved, ciliate-along 
the outer edge. Dusk unilateral, very large, ovate-oblong, 
Mee Style slender, hairy above; segments short, acute. 
Fig. 1, Lateral, 2, front view of flower ; 3, anther; 4, ovary, disk and 
style :—all magnified. 
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