Verticils twelve to twenty, rather crowded, sessile, eight- 
to twenty-eight-flowered. Bracts very deciduous, a quarter 
to two-thirds of an inch long, a sixth to a third of an inch 
broad, broadly ovate, acute, mucronate, very concave, 
ciliate. Pedicels about one line long, puberulous and 
glandular. Calyz one and a half to two lines long, 
pubescent, with spreading hairs intermingled with indigo- 
coloured glands, lobed nearly to the base in front; dorsal 
lobe two-thirds of an inch broad, lateral lobes two-fifths 
of an inch broad at the base, all tapering to a very acute 
point, dull brownish-purple. Corolla light blue, hairy on 
the back of the upper and lower lips with purple hairs, 
and with a few white hairs on the underside of the tube, 
which is one-third of an inch long, bent downwards at its 
exsertion from the calyx; upper lip a line and a half 
long, two and a half lines broad, deeply divided into two 
subquadrate lobes with a small rounded lobule at their 
base; lower lip three lines long, about a line and a half 
broad, oblong, obtuse, rather shallowly boat-shaped, about 
three-quarters of a line deep. Stamens two lines long, 
glabrous; filaments blue; anthers blackish, with yellow 
pollen. Style as long as the stamens, glabrous, blue; 
stigmas subulate, very acute. Disk with a large lobe on 
the lower side, white.—N. EH. Brown. 
Figs. 1 and 2, flowers; 3, calyx laid open, exposing ovary; 4, a hair; 
5, corolla in section; 6 and 7, anthers; 8, apex of style with stigmas :—a// 
enlarged. 
