glabrous or the upper ciliate towards the base ; floral similar, 
but more ciliate. Spike one to three inches long, stout, 
cylindric, dense-flowered. Bracts linear, acute, shorter or 
longer than the flowers, ciliate with long rigid white bristles ; 
bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Flowers half an inchlong. Calyx 
cleft to the middle or below it into five subulate ciliate 
teeth, of which the two lower are much the longest, and as 
long as, or much exceeding the tube. Corol/a-tube twice as long 
as the calyx, pale; limb deep purple; upper lip short, sub- 
erect, arched, obtuse ; lower lip broad, 3-lobed, spotted with 
white ; lobes obtuse. Authers purple. Stigmas subulate.— 
@: Di. 
Fig. 1, Front, and 2, side view of flower; 3, longitudinal section of 
corolla, with ovary and style :—all magnified. 
