tetragonous. Leaves petioled, lower eight inches long and 

 nearly as broad, orbicular-cordate with overlapping basal 

 lobes, obtuse or acute, crenate, dark green, many nerved 

 and reticulate, pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole three to 

 five inches long, rather slender. Spike a foot or more long, 

 sessile, robust, very many and dense-flowered ; whorls 

 crowded, many-flowered ; floral bracts green, herbaceous, 

 persistent, broadly ovate-cordate, two inches long, pale 

 green, tips recurved. Flowers shortly pedicelled, pedicels 

 calyx and corolla sparsely glandular hairy. Calyx nearly 

 an inch long, broadly tubular, shortly 2-lipped, upper lip 

 and teeth of the lower acute. Corolla pale blue ; tube 

 liardly longer than the calyx, funnel-shaped, glabrous 

 within ; limb one and a half inches across the upper and 

 lower lips ; upper lip oblong, obtuse, erect ; side lobes of 

 the lower short, rounded; mid-lobe large very broadly 

 obcordate, deeply 2-lobed. Stamens far exserted, filaments 

 short, included ; upper branch of the connective glabrous 

 more than twice as long as the linear-oblong obtuse 

 deflexed lower; anther-ceils linear-oblong; staminodes 

 small, filiform, ascending, bifid at the tip. Disc very thick, 

 fleshy, produced behind into an oblong obtuse column 

 overtopping the oblong hairy, notched nutlets.— J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Calyx, style and flower-bud ; 2, tube of corolla laid open showing 

 the stamens and stammodes ; 3 and 4, anthers j 5, disk and nutlets -.-All 

 enlarged ; 6, reduced view of whole plant. 



