gradually into the winged petiole; margins remotely and 
minutely denticulate ; midrib stout; veins obscure. Scape 
up to three feet high, rather stout, minutely puberulous 
near the top. Flowers in verticils of five to nine, 
drooping, sweet-scented ; bracts linear-lanceolate, shorter 
than the pedicels, channelled above. Calyx two-fifths of 
an inch long, shorter than the tube of the corolla, glabrous 
outside, minutely puberulous and farinose within; lobes 
about as long as the tube, triangular-lanceolate, some- 
what unequal, margins ciliate or minutely denticulate. 
Corolla four-fifths of an inch across, dark brownish 
purple ; tube about half an inch long, the mouth surrounded 
by a raised pentagonal ring; lobes reflexed, narrowly 
ligulate. Stamens one-tenth of an inch long; filaments 
very short, dilated downwards. Ovary subglobose, stigma 
hemispherical, with a depressed apex. Capsule oblong- 
cylindrical, projecting above the calyx.—J. F. Doris. 
Fig. 1, portion of leaf ; 2, section of calyx with pistil ; 3, a corolla laid open; 
4, pistil :—all enlarged. 
