more or less softly pubescent or almost villous throughout. 
Stems green, obtusely quadrangular, rather tumid at the 
nodes. Leaves two to three inches long, petioled, ovate, acute, 
quite entire, acute rarely cordate or rounded at the base, 
membranous, dark green, faintly pubescent above, and 
still more so beneath. Flowers in axillary clusters, which, 
being more crowded upwards, are there disposed in 
terminal stout spikes, enclosed singly or in pairs or threes in 
an involucre of two lanceolate, concave bracts, which terminate 
in long awns. Calyx of five subulate segments, much smaller 
than the bracts. Corolla one inch long, rose-purple; tube 
slender, pubescent, expanding into a narrowly campanulate 
throat; lips shorter than the tube; upper elliptic, cleft to the - 
middle into three acute lobes, the lateral lobes striped and 
the middle one spotted with purple; lower lip much smaller, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, revolute, striped with white. Stamens 
shortly exserted; anthers small, one-celled, Style with 
spreading, linear lobes.—J. D. H. | 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, anther; 3, ovary, calyx, and involucre; 4 and 5, ovary 
and disk : 6, vertical section of ditto :—all magnified, : 
