three feet high including the spike, robust, leafy, clothed 
with flocculent white wool, as thick as the thumb at the 
base. adical leaves two feet long and a foot broad, ovate 
in outline, glabrous, bipinnatipartite; segments oblong- or 
linear-lanceolate, inciso-serrate, green above, much paler 
beneath; cauline leaves smaller, sessile and less com- 
pound ; floral ovate, inciso-pinnatifid, as long as the flowers. 
Whorls many, rather distant, many-flowered; bracts 
lanceolate. Calyx three-fourths of an inch long, tubular- 
campanulate, terete, densely flocculent; mouth truncate 
with five minute bristles or teeth. Cvrolla nearly two 
inches long, pale dull-red purple, with a bright-red mid- 
lobe of the lower lip, villous, especially the galeate upper 
lip; tube glabrous ; side-lobes of lower lip broad, disk 
between them dull yellow. Stamens glabrous. Ovary 
hispid.— J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, Section of calyx, showing the ovary; 2, corolla with the lower lip 
removed ; 3, stamens in position; 4 and 5, stamens :—al/ but fig. 2 enlarged. 
