Deser.—A much-branched shrub, about three feet high. 
Stems quadrangular, green and glandular when young, 
pale brown and glabrous in age. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse, shortly attenuate at the base, pubescent on both 
surfaces, an inch and a half long, nine lines wide; petioles 
two to four lines long. Cymes axillary, shortly pedunculate, 
few-flowered. Calyx six lines long, five-lobed half-way 
down, glandular outside, clothed with simple adpressed 
hairs inside; segments linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate. 
Corolla lilac with violet streaks in the throat and on the 
lower lip; upper lip with two oblong, obtuse lobes three 
lines long and a line and a half wide; lower lip with three 
oblong-spathulate, obtuse lobes five lines long and two 
lines wide. Lower filaments a little longer than the upper, 
and united to them for a little distance above their in- 
sertion; anthers oblong, obtuse, one line long, dorsifixed 
near the base. Ovary oblong, a line and a quarter long, _ — 
: glabrous ; style filiform.—C. H. Wright. 
__ Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, longi- 
tudinal section of ovary; 6, stigma:—all enlarged. 
