or acute, quite entire, narrowed at the base into a very short 
petiole, nerves very indistinct. HVowers one inch in diameter, 
lemon-yellow, solitary and axillary in the ultimate branchlets, 
or more frequently terminal, with two leafy bracts, or three 
together—two with two leafy bracts, and the intermediate 
one bractless ; peduncle one-half to an inch long, very slender. 
Calyzx-segments ovate-oblong, acute, outer larger. Corolla 
glabrous, tube short, broad; limb two-lipped; upper lip 
orbicular, concave, arched, notched at the tip, margins re- 
curved ; lower 3-lobed, lobes oblong, rounded at the tip. 
Stamens quite glabrous ; anther-cells divaricating, antherless 
filament bearded. Ovary ovoid. Style slender, stigmatic- 
lobes minute.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, top of filament and anther; 8, calyx and 
style; 4, ovary, ovule and base of style:—ail magnified. 
