acquired a knowledge of interesting cultivated plants that 
has rarely been equalled. 
Drsor. A tall, graceful herb, two to four feet high, with 
‘slender four-angled stem, more or less hairy, pubescent, or 
nearly glabrous. eaves one to four inches long, ovate, 
acute or acuminate, serrate, pubescent, pilose or tomentose, 
base rounded or acute; petiole one-third to one inch long, 
slender. Inflorescence of numerous verticillasters, which are 
more or less remote, sometimes an inch apart, and forming 
a spike a foot long, rachis very slender ; floral leaves (or 
bracts) small, one-fourth of an inch long; ovate, acuminate, 
very deciduous. Verticillasters about six-flowered. Flowers 
Suberect, upwards of an inch long, tomentose. Calya 
short, five-angled, two-lipped, lips short, teeth triangular, 
with acute shortly aristate tips. Corolla scarlet, about six 
times as long as the calyx; tube slender, compressed ; 
upper lip oblong, very concave, rounded at the tip, 
erect; lower reflexed, about as long as the upper mid-lobe 
rounded, retuse, lateral very small. Stamens exserted, 
connectives straight, slender, parallel; anther-cells broadly 
oblong.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, flower ; 2, section of corolla with stamens ; 3, style arms :—all enlarged. 
