when specimens were also flowering in the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew. 



Descr. — An erect, branching, nearly glabrous herb, two 

 to three feet high. Stem rather stout, angular, leafy; 

 branchlets puberulous. Leaves half an inch to two inches 

 long, alternate, sessile, linear-oblong or -lanceolate, obtuse, 

 acute or acuminate, coarsely serrate, rather thick in 

 texture, midrib very stout beneath. Flowers small, in 

 erect, dense, cylindric spikes, two to six inches long, 

 terminating the stem and branches, about one-third of an 

 inch long ; bracts as long as the corolla-tube, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, herbaceous, green, persistent. 

 Calyx about one-sixth of an inch long, of two very 

 unequal lobes, unilaterally connate, the larger boat-shaped, 

 finely acuminate. Corolla-tube very slender, open for two- 

 thirds of its length ; limb yellow, with a large, red, 

 thickened area in the throat, four-lobed ; lobes oblong, 

 tips rounded, the two inner the narrower. Anthers large, 

 linear-oblong. Ovary oblong, with a small disk-gland at 

 the base ; style slender. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, calyx ; 2, corolla and stamena; 3 and 4, anthers ; 5, ovary and disk- 

 gland; 6, ovary; 7, transverse, and 8, vertical section of the same:— all 

 enlarged. 



