Deser.—A perennial herb, with musky odour. iootstock 
woody. Stem ascending, four-angled, puberulous. Leaves 
three to six inches long, shortly petioled, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, finely or coarsely serrate, green, with purple 
mareins; floral leaves like the cauline, but smaller. 
Flowers few, in loose, false-whorls. Bracts and bracteoles 
linear. Calyx campanulate, shortly two-lipped, 5-toothed, 
puberulous, much enlarged, and thinly coriaceous 
in fruit. Corolla an inch and a half long; tube terete, 
ventricose from the base upward; tips short, spread- 
ing, the posticous and lateral lobes of the anticous lip 
pale yellow, terminal much the largest, rose-purple- 
coloured. Filaments slender, erect, hirsute towards the 
base ; anthers small, with a star-like fascicle of hairs 
at the top, and one at the base of each cell. Fruiting 
calyx one half to three-fourths of an inch long, oblong- 
campanulate, coriaceous, striate. Nutlets one-third of an 
iuch long ; produced upward into a coriaceous wing. Seed 
orbicular, compressed, black.—J. D. H. ; 
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Fig. 1, calyx ; 2, base of corolla and stamens; 3 and 4, front and back views 
of anthers ; 5, disk and pistil :—all enlarged. 
