Descr. A somewhat shrubby perennial, one and a half to two 
feet high, a good deal branched, dranches often red-purple. Leaves 
opposite, three to five inches long, exactly lanceolate, entire, pen- 
ninerved, rough to the touch on both sides, tapering below into 
a short footstalk. In vigorous plants the terminal branch be- 
comes a long leafy raceme of numerous, axillary, drooping, large, 
apetalous, subsecund flowers ; but copious lesser branches often 
develope themselves, and bear a few nearly terminal flowers, 
as represented in the figure given in the ‘ Revue Horticole,’ the 
upper part of the plant then forming a racemose panicle. Calya 
full an inch and a half long in some of our cultivated specimens, 
striated, glanduloso-pilose, tubular towards the base, and there, 
above, bearing a short, very obtuse spur, orange-red, but gradu- 
ally passing into yellow towards the mouth ; this latter is a little 
expanded, five-toothed, with a green gland in the sinuses, and a 
fringe of long hairs, each tipped with a gland. Filaments very 
unequal in length, exserted ; azthers small. Pistil subovate, with 
a large flat g/and at the base (corresponding with the spur), and 
a horse-shoe gland at the base. of the style, which latter is also 
exserted ; stigma obtuse, bifid. 
Fig. 1. Lower leaf,—natural size. 2. Flower. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
