keeled, margins quite smooth. Flowers about J in. diam., 

 sessile, in short, dense-fld. conical, solitary or ternate 

 spikes ; peduncle, axillary stout, pubescent, longer than 

 the leaves, simple or forked, bibracteate at the fork, 

 and bearing three spikes. Bracts as long as the calyx, 

 coriaceous, oblong, concave, ciliate. Sepals linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tube very short, included in the 

 calyx-tube, spreading, posticous lobe broadest, concave, 

 erect, the other three linear-oblong, obtuse, decurved. 

 Stamens exserted, anthers blue. Ovary 4-lobed, tops of 

 lobes hispid. Capsule rather longer than the sepals, 

 oblong, 4-lobed. — /. D. E. 



Fig. 1, Portion of spike ; 2, calyx ; 3, atamen ; 4, disk and ovary ; 5, capsule : 

 -All enlarged. 



