one inch long, pubescent, dull purple. Spike three inches 
long, on a short stout leafy peduncle, formed of closely 
tetragonally imbricate appressed bracts, three-quarters to 
one inch long, which are obovate, serrate, subacute, and of 
a dull brown-purple colour, the lower of them with green 
foliaceous tips. Calyx-segmenits and bracteoles oblong- 
lanceolate, acute. Corolla much exceeding the bracts, one 
to one and a quarter inch long, scarlet ; tube slender, slightly 
curved, arched at the top; upper lip arching, beaked, acute, 
compressed, tip ascending ; lower lip sharply reflexed, three- 
lobed to beyond the middle, lateral lobes broadly oblong 
obtuse, mid-lobe orbicular. Ovary glabrous, on a fleshy 
disk.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, bracteole ; 2, sepal ; 3, lower lip; 4, disk and ovary—all enlarged. 
