are larger than the leaves, sessile, orbicular, coriaceous, a 
finely reticulated, puberulous, with thickened margins and 
long spinous diverging teeth. Calyx tubular, pubescent, 
two-lipped, tube thirteen-ribbed; teeth triangular-lanceolate, 
acuminate; throat sparsely villous. Corolla half an inch 
long ; tube slender, twice as long as the calyx; upper lip 
small, oblong, obtuse, concave, white; lower broad, purple 
with a yellow throat, four-lobed, lobes rounded, the lateral 
broadest. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat; fertile 
two, filaments stout glabrous; anthers didymous; stami- 4 
nodes small, filiform, capitellate. Disk very large, shortly — 
columnar. Style very slender, glabrous; stigmatic arms 
shortly filiform.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Bract; 2, flower ; 3, portion of corolla and stamens ; 4, disk and ovary; ae 
5, disk and carpels :—al/ enlarged. “o- 
