ate or subserrate. Flowers arranged in a drooping elongated 
branched panicle,-with subulate bracts at all the axils, one- 
eighth to one-fourth of an inch long, shortly pedicelled. 
Calyz-lobes one-third to one and a half inch long, nearly equal, 
subulate-lanceolate, purple. Corolla two inches long, nearly 
straight, cylindrical, and tubular, rather inflated above the 
summit of the calyx-lobes, bright vinous-purple ; mouth ob- 
lique; lobes short, rounded, recurved. Stamens four, two 
fertile; filaments very slender, exserted, garnished through- 
out their length with two series of long recurved hairs; ste- 
rile stamens with shorter filaments. Anthers bright-yellow, 
the edge of the cells ciliated ; spurs short, projecting. Ovary 
with eight ovules.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Base of corolla and stamens. 2. Summit of filaments and an- 
ther. 3. Ovary. 4. Longitudinal section of ditto :—all magnified. 
