plants to the Royal Gardens, Cew, which flowered, in the 

 Cape House, in June of la . and which supplied the 



material for the accompanying plate. It sends up a 

 profusion of slender leaflless flowering scapes, that are 

 simple or branched from the base, anil continue flowering 

 for two months. 



Descr. Leaves all radical, with rarely an opposite 

 pair towards the base of one or more of the scap 

 two inches long, spreading, broadly ovate- or oblong-cor- 

 date, obtuse, coarsely irregularly eremite or lobulate, convex 

 and dark green above, with few sunk nerves and convex 

 surfaces between them, red-purple beneath, with prominent 

 nerves; petiole as long as the blade, or shorter. Scales 

 six to ten inches high, ascending, with usually a pair of 

 long subbasal branches, angular, greenish red; whorls 

 very numerous, rather remote, five-flowered, or the upper- 

 most three-flowered; bracts none, or minute, subulate; 

 pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx shortly oblong, one- 

 sixth of an inch long, five-ribbed, obscurely puberulous and 

 glandular; upper lip short, recurved, entire ; lower rather 

 longer, with two short sharp ovate teeth. Corolht pale 

 amethystine blue ; tube hardly longer than the calyx, with a 

 villous ring within; limb about one-third of an inch in 

 diameter; upper lip obtusely bifid, lower three-lobed, lateral 

 lobes shortly oblong, obtuse; midlobe longer, bifid; 

 lobules divergent, truncate and crenate. Stamens deflexed 

 on the lower lip of the corolla ; connective much longer than 

 the filaments, straight or nearly so, the antheriferous arm 

 three times as long as the other which is subacute ; anther- 

 cell very small, oblong. Ovary glabrous; style-arms 

 slender.—/. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Bud ; 2, flower; 3, portion of tube of corolla laid open and stamens; 

 4, anther-cell; 5, ovary and disk : — all enlarged. 



