brilliant. Its leaves in shape very much resemble those of the 
Ground Ivy, Glechoma hederacea. 
Descr. Planta span or at most a foot high, decumbent be- 
low, then erect. Stem and éranches tetragonous, slightly hoary, 
purple-green. Leaves all on long footstalks, cordate or between 
cordate and reniform, lobato-crenate at the margin, venoso-reti- 
culate, glabrous or only slightly downy above, beneath hoary, 
indistinctly pilose on the nerves, hair or down mixed with mi- 
nute shining points. Raceme terminal, elongate. Whorls four- 
to six-flowered (the uppermost two-flowered). Bracteas small, 
ovato-lanceolate. Pedicels short. Calyx green, tipped with 
deep purple; upper lip plain, truncated, two-toothed, the in- 
termediate tooth being obsolete: lower lip bifid, with two, su- 
bulate, erect segments. Corolla thrice as long as the calyx, rich 
scarlet, downy: the ¢wde compressed, slightly curved or arched : 
upper “ip (or galea) short, straight, bifid: lower Zip large, three- 
lobed, deflexed, lateral lobes ovate, obtuse, spreading, interme- 
diate, subrotundate, cleft. Anthers exserted beyond the galea; 
the branches of the connections each bear a polliniferous cell. 
Ovaries four, on a large fleshy gland. Stigma unequally bifid. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
