in colour. Leaves spreading; petiole one to two inches 
and a half long, glandular and hairy; blade two to four 
inches and a half long, about two to three inches and a 
half broad, ovate, acute, subtruncate or subcordate at the 
base, and shortly decurrent on the petiole, regularly 
obtusely dentate; veins impressed above and prominent 
beneath, minutely puberulous beneath, and very in- 
distinctly so on the upper surface, bright green, paler 
beneath. Panicle terminal, spike-like, six inches to a 
foot long, one and a half to two and a half inches 
in diameter, composed of from ten to twenty or more 
verticils which develop into dichotomous cymes bearing ° 
ten to fifteen pedicellate flowers; lowest pair of cymes 
usually pedunculate and the rest sessile, glandular, and 
hairy. Pedicels two to six lines long. Calyx hairy, four- 
lobed ; upper and lower lobes subequal, about a line long 
and broad, divergent, oblong, the upper obtuse, the lower 
shortly and acutely bifid; lateral lobes two-thirds of a line 
long, quarter of a line broad, linear-oblong, obtuse; after 
flowering the lobes close together and enlarge. Corolla 
_ three-quarters of an inch long, thinly glandular-puberulous, 
with a few longer hairs on the upper and lower lips and 
underside of the tube, which is abruptly bent upon itself 
at the middle, dilated beyond the bend, compressed, nearly 
closed inside at the bend by a membrane, white, stained 
with dark blue; upper lips subqnadrate, unequally four- 
lobed ; lower lips five lines long, three lines deep, com- 
pressed-boat-shaped, acute, deep blue. Stamens about 
equalling the lower lip; filaments connate at the base, 
white, with blue tips; authers oblong, violet. Style 
shortly exceeding the corolla, filiform, glabrous, deep 
orange at the very base, blue at the apex. Disk with a 
large, oblong gland on the lower side.—N. E. Brown. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, a corolla laid open; 3and 4, anthers; 5, ovary — 3 
and disk :—all exlarged. 
