Davas Dagh in 1895; a plant raised from which flowéred 
in the open border in June, 1899. 
Descr.—An erect, branching undershrub, attaining six feet 
in height, with appressed-tomentose, green branches and 
leaves. Lower leaves long petioled, oblong or ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, base acute, truncate, or cordate, upper smaller, 
sessile by a narrow base, all rather dark green above, with 
four or five pairs of impressed ascending nerves, and copious 
reticulations, beneath paler, almost hoary with very strong 
nerves and anastomosing nervules. Head of flowers a 
depressed sphere four inches in diameter, with two pendu- 
lous narrowly oblong leaves, three or more inches long, at 
the base. Bracts small, orbicular, cuspidate, -membranous, 
more or less stellately hairy. Calyx three-fourths of an 
- inch long, erect, nearly tubular, ten-ribbed, hirsute, with 
stellate hairs ; mouth truncate, rather oblique; lobes five, 
short, very broad, membranous, retuse, alternating with as 
many cuspidate spreading teeth. Corolla one inch and a 
half long, golden-yellow ; upper lip villous, with two dorsal 
elevated obtuse keels extending to the retuse tip; lower 
lip expanded at the end into two orbicular wings. 
Filaments hairy below the middle.—J. D. H. 
Figs. 1 dnd 2, bracts; 3, calyx and style; 4, stellate hairs of calyx; Pe. 
5, portion of corolla and stamens; 6 and 7, anthers; 8, disk and ovary:—AU) 
enlarged. . 
