deflexed, ovate, bluntly acuminate at the apex, the base rather 

 deeply auriculato-cordate, the lobes approximate, the margin en- 

 tire, or obscurely and remotely denticulate. Feins few, remote, 

 oblique, mostly simple. Petioles one to two inches long. Baceme 

 terminal, solitary, straight, bearing numerous flowers on short 

 pedicels, bracteated at tne base; bracteas small, linear, recurved. 

 The raceme, when the flowers are all developed, attain a height 

 of six to eight inches. Calyx green, formed as in the genus. 

 Corolla one and a half to two inches long, erect, deep fulvous or (in 

 our var.) sulphur-coloured ; with a deeper yellow tinge about the 

 faux ; tube narrow, elongate, infundibuliform ; upper lip helmet- 

 shaped, three-lobed, covering the faux, lower lip patent, broad 

 ovate, emarginate. Stamens and style included. Ovary small, 

 deeply four-lobed, situated at the apex of a large, fleshy, elon- 

 gated, curved yynophore, tapering upwards. Style filiform. 



Fig. 1. Flower, — magnified. 2. Pistil, — magnified. 



