petiole, margin entire, slightly revolute, scaberulous above, 
finely glandular-punctate beneath, often hispidly ciliate, 
often with short axillary branches bearing smaller leaves, 
Whorls 2-6-flowered, close set or the lower somewhat 
remote, making a terminal raceme 13-23 in., rarely over 
4 in. long; bracts elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
slightly spinescent, cuneate, white-ciliate, rather shorter 
than the calyx; bracteoles lanceolate, about 5 lin. long; 
pedicels 1-3 lin. long, pubescent. Calyx about ? in. long, 
tubular campanulate, the bases of the sinuses slightly 
produced outwards, puberulous or sometimes pilose ; upper 
lip 3-fid, lobes 24-34 lin. long, the lateral triangular-lanceo- 
late, smaller than the elliptic-ovate central; lower lip 2-fid, 
teeth triangular lanceolate, about 4 lin. long, all slightly 
spinescent and shortly ciliate. Corolla 14-14 in. long, 
violet, white dotted externally, villous especially on the 
upper lip; tube incurved, hardly 1 lin. wide below, abruptly 
enlarged and ventricose above, 5-6 lin, wide; upper lip 
suborbicular, hooded, 4 lin. long, emarginate; lower lip 
spreading, about 6 lin. long, midlobe obovate-obreniform, 
5-6 lin. wide, much larger than the subrotund side-lobes. 
Stamens exserted from the tube but rather shorter than the 
upper lip; anthers densely white-villous, Nu¢lets trigonous, 
about 2 lin. long, white-villous below. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla, laid open; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, ovary 
and disk :—all enlarged. 
