Descriprion.— Herb, with short tufted densely leafy 
bases, the flowering stems erect, leafy, 4—6 in. high, rather 
densely beset with spreading glandular hairs. Leaves at 
the base imbricate, sessile, spathulate-ligulate, with rounded 
mucronate tips, 3-10 lin. long, 2—3 lin. wide, with numer- 
ous intramarginal pits on the upper side, keeled beneath, 
margin cartilaginous and sparingly ciliate near the base ; 
stem-leaves spreading, oblong-spathulate, about 5 lin. long, 
under 2 lin. wide, reddish with an abruptly narrowed green 
tip, rather densely glandular hairy except at the tip. 
Inflorescence racemose or subspicate, the pedicels much 
shorter than the bracts. Calyx reddish-purple, densely 
glandular hairy ; lobes unequal, oblong elliptic, rounded at 
the tip, the largest 3 lin. long. Petals erect, elliptic- 
lanceolate, purple, about 1 lin. long, barely half as wide, 
ciliate towards the middle and at the base. Stamens hardly 
exceeding the petals. 
Fig. 1, a basal leaf; 2, a stem leaf; 3, a bract and flower; 4, flower; 5, petal; 
6, stamen ; 7, pistil:—all enlarged. 
