Descr. Quite glabrous. Branches numerous from the 
root, crowded, ascending and erect, four-angled, leafy, 
four to eight inches high, much branched. Leaves one 
and a half to two inches long, ovate or ovate-cordate, 
acute, serrate, bright green ; petiole stout, more than half 
as long as the blade. Flowers in the upper axils, and 
forming terminal erect racemes; pedicels opposite, erect, 
stout, half to three-quarters of an inch long; bracts 
minute, subulate. Calyx three-quarters of an inch long, 
ovoid or ellipsoid, acute, rather inflated, broadly five- 
winged, green; wings thin, obscurely ciliate; teeth very 
small, subulate, erect, conniving in fruit. Corolla-tube one 
inch long, pale violet, yellow posteriorly, puberulous ; limb 
one and a half inch in diameter; upper lip an inch broad, 
broader than long, pale lilac, upper margin rounded, 
obscurely two-lobed; lower lip of three much smaller 
bright violet rounded lobes, the central one with a golden 
blotch at the base. Filaments all quite simple, without 
appendage or tooth. Disk cup-shaped. Ovary lanceolate, 
puberulous ; stigmatic lobes small.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2 and 3, front and back view of anthers; 4, disk and 
ovary :—all enlarged. — 
