Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Island of Hainan in 
Southern China, in 1894, by Mr. C. Ford, F.L.S., 
Superintendent of the Hong Kong Botanical - Gardens. 
It flowers freely in a cool greenhouse in early summer. 
Descr.—Stem two to three ft. high, sparingly branched, 
tetragonous, quite glabrous or hoary with a minute 
pubescence, pale violet-blue. Leaves two and a half to 
three inches long, shortly petioled, ovate or ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, faintly distantly serrate, quite glabrous, 
base cuneate, dark green and shining above, pale green or 
violet beneath, covered with minute glandular dots, and a few 
very short scattered hairs ; nerves six or eight pairs ; petiole 
one-sixth to one quarter of an inch long. Raceme terminal, 
lax-fid., flowers subsecund, opposite, very shortly peduncled; 
bracts very small, green, about as long as the very short 
pedicels ; rachis, bracts, pedicels and calyx puberulous. 
Calyx small, lobes short, triangular, obtuse ; galea small, 
orbicular. Corolla an inch long, glandular-pubescent, tube 
narrow and green below the middle, surrounded above 
the base within by a band of stellate hairs, above the 
middle ventricose and dark violet-blue ; upper lip hooded 
quite entire ; lower 3-partite, lateral lobes small rounded, 
mid-lobe orbicular. Filaments sparsely hairy; anthers 
didymous, puberulous. Gynophore globose, gibbous, con- 
tracted into a short neck which is girt with glands. 
Nucules granulate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of under-surface of leaf; 2, calyx, pedicel and bract; 
3 bd hone oe Sa 34 and — of median, and 6, re lateral stamens: 
» GSK and ovary ; 6, portion of fruiting raceme; 9, nucule:——A// i 
except 8, which is of nat. size, si ee esesg _— oe 
