nating in narrow, erect, panicle-like — Kee ae 
inches long, of bright blue flowers. oT a eh Lape 
rescence sparsely pubescent, with a eee wate corm 
leaves up to seven inches long by four broad, ov to, brighe 
acuminate, margin coarsely lobulate and aaee oa 
green above, and reticulately nerved, paler ar : ae 
prominent pubescent nerves, base decurrent on nese ; 
which is two inches long, or more, stout ; gO ae 
and lower floral smaller, shorter-petioled, a anal 
deeply cleft. Raceme about three inches _ eS 
lets sub-erect or spreading, one inch long to eee 
bearing dense fid. dichotomous cymes of sa ie 
Shortly pedicelled flowers; bracteoles porate oe 
Calyx very small, tube sub-globose, 4 du on ette a 
Stellately spreading hairs; dorsal sepal ag pia 
puberulous, nearly as long as the corolla-tube : e ied 
flexure, lateral about half as long, and two small ae ee 
Segments linear, obtuse. Corolla about half an aie i: i 
tube suddenly deflexed a little above the short ae 
ascending, and again deflexed forming a sub-camp ot lid 
laterally compressed throat; mouth two-lipped ; NP de a 
reflexed, obovate, broadly shortly four-cleft, lobes oe ae 
lower lip rather longer, cymbiform, sub-acute. [1 : bbe 
connate at the base, forming an open concave . ee 
adnate to throat and base of the lower lip of the corolla. 
J.D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same, 
insertion of the stam 
: the 
with half the lower lip removed, short 
ens; 3, section of calyx, showing the disk an 
ovary :—All enlarged. 
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