Drscr. A robust erect more or less paniculately branched 
glaucous smooth perennial. Leaves scattered, spreading, from 
one-half to four inches long; usually lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate from a semi-amplexicaul base, rather rigid, 
smooth, with obscure nerves, sometimes short and broadly 
ovate, at others oblong, at others linear-lanceolate and two 
inches long with a narrow base. Racemes long, slender, — 
panicled, spreading, with distinct flowers, or stout erect with 
crowded flowers ; bracteal leaves, like the cauline, but shorter, 
spreading ; pedicels shorter than the flower, erect, stout. 
Calyzx-segmenis ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, erect in 
fruit. Corolla nearly two inches long, including the spur; 
bright golden yellow, with orange on the palate; tube short, 
compressed, rather gibbous behind at the base, produced in 
front into a slender straight subulate spur of its own length ; 
limb large, upper lip with two broad acute reflexed lobes ; 
lower with two very broad reflexed overlapping rounded 
lateral lobes, between which the small obtuse or subacute 
mid-lobe projects ; palate prominent, villous. Stamens hairy 
at the base. Ovary glabrous. Capsule small, globose, opening 
by apical teeth. Seeds angular, with raised edges and 
tubercled faces.—J. D. H. 
_ _Hig 1, upper lip and outer of the corolla laid open, showing the stamens; 2, 
pistil :—both enlarged. 
