Dzscr, An erect annual, branched from the base, ten to — 
eighteen inches high, slender, glabrous below, viscid-pubescent — 
above. Leaves on the short primary shoots whorled, elliptic. — 
lanceolate, on the stems and branches one to one and a half 
inches long, narrowly linear, rather broader towards the 
middle; subacute, l-nerved, pale green. acemes very many- 
flowered, two to six inches long, much elongated in fruit; 
pedicels very slender, quarter to one inch long; bracts narrow 
linear. lower with the spur one and a half inches long. 
Sepals green, narrow-linear, obtuse, glandular, recurved. 
Corolla bright violet-purple, with a small yellow patch which — 
is not streaked with purple, on the centre of the palate; — 
upper lip erect, 2-lobed to below the middle, lobes rounded 
at the top; lower lip very short, broad, truncate, 3-lobed, 
lobes rounded, the middle one rather the smallest; palate very 
prominent, 2-lobed, smooth, hairy within; spur often half as 
long again as the flower or pedicel, slender, gradually narrowed 
to a very fine point, purple. Capsule one-fifth inch long, tur- 
gid, as long as the appressed persistent sepals, glabrous, cells 
opening by two terminal pores, at length 5-valved. Seeds 
subcylindric, obtuse at both ends, transversely furrowed.— 
J. D. id. 
Fig. 1, flower :—magnified. 
