Descr. Leaves one to two and a half inches long, oblong 
or broadly lingulate, obtuse, sessile, or narrowed into a 
short broad petiole, glandular and obscurely puberulous, 
pale green, margins of young incurved, of old flat. Scapes — 
three to four inches high, slender, shortly hairy and glan- 
dular, especially above. Flowers two-thirds of an inch in 
diameter. Calyx small, segments of upper lip oblong, 
obtuse, glandular-hairy and -ciliate; lower lip two-fid, 
shorter than the upper. Corolla lilac or rose-coloured ; 
tube white, inflated, suddenly contracted into the straight 
or curved subulate spur; two upper lobes almost rounded, 
three lower larger rather truncate; throat yellowish. 
Stamens small; anthers globose. Ovary globose; lower 
lobe of stigma broad, rounded, upper lacerate, with a 
spiniform central process. Capsule globose, rather shorter 
than the calyx.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary; 2, front, and 3, back view of stamens; 4, ovary; 
5, young capsule :—all enlarged. 
