was first described by Roxburgh in the Calcutta Gardens, is 
confined to the far-eastern districts of India; it was found in 
the Sylhet jungles by Dr. Thomson and myself in 1850, but 
our plants are from Mr. Parish’s seeds. 
Descr. A herbaceous plant, shrubby at the base and much 
branched, branches and infloresence viscid-pubescent. Leaves 
three to five inches long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
long-acuminate, attenuated into the petiole, glabrous on 
both surfaces. Panicles terminal, much branched, branches 
erect, patent, with long, rigid, subulate bracts at the axils, 
terminated by three-flowered, narrow heads. Calyx-lobes subu- 
late, shorter than the similar bracteoles. Corolla pale purple, 
with a long, slender tube, that is compressed, and slightly 
twisted at the apex; upper lip one inch long, oblong, three- 
toothed, pale purple-white, and speckled at the throat, lower 
very concave, much shorter, entire at the apex. Anthers 
straight—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Bracteoles, calyx, and pistils. 2. Stamens. 3. Ovary :—all mag- 
nified. 
