as the little finger, terete, green. Radical leaves six to 

 ten inches long, narrowly lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 

 hirsute on both surfaces, bright green above, paler beneath ; 

 nerves stout, two to three on each side of the stout midrib, 

 running nearly parallel with the margin ; base subam- 

 plexicaul; cauline leaves many, smaller, sessile, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute ; uppermost (under the inflorescence) more 

 ovate-lanceolate, three-nerved, reflexed. Thyrse eight to 

 twelve inches high by three to four inches in diameter, 

 cylindric, obtuse, dense-flowered, hirsutely hispid ; bracts 

 elongate, linear-lanceolate, much longer than the flowers, 

 spreading and recurved. Floivers sessile, an inch long. 

 Calyx divided to the base into five narrow linear villous 

 segments longer than the corolla, green tipped with purple. 

 Corolla-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, terete, covered w r ith 

 glandular hairs, glabrous within ; lobes five, short, trian- 

 gular-ovate, obtuse, spreading, dark maroon purple. 

 Anthers sessile,, a little below the mouth of the corolla, 

 narrowly linear, yellow. Ovary four-lobed ; style simple ; 

 stigma capitellate. — J. D. If. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, corolla laid open ; 3, pistil .•— all enlarged. 



