to four feet. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, rather obtuse, three to 
four inches long, crenulate, very closely rugose, hairy and glan- 
duloso-punctate. Petiole one inch long, channelled above. 
Panicle terminal, erect ; the ranches decussately opposite, pa- 
tent, each bearing a cyme of several, large, spreading flowers 
Bracteas small, linear, at the setting-on of each ramification. 
Calyx sharply ribbed, two-lipped, five-toothed, beset with crys- 
tallme glands, green, tinged with purple. Coro//a thrice as long 
as the calyx, externally hairy, white, and striated with pale pur- 
ple. ube enlarged upwards. Upper lip white, much and late- 
rally compressed, straight, broader upwards. Lower lip deep 
and rich violet, variegated and streaked with white at the faux, 
three-lobed ; lateral lobes reflexed; middle one large, pendent, 
bifid, the /obes subquadrate. Branching filament of the stamen 
or connectivum with the lower branch obtuse. Sfy/e bifid. 
Fig. 1. Stamen, showing the nature of its connectivum, magnified. 
