erect, or ascending at the base, very stout, simple, obtusely 
4-angled. Leaves dark-green, rugose, radical on petioles 
sometimes a foot long; blade cordiform, deeply lobed at the 
base, coarsely crenate, rugose ; cauline in few pairs, sessile or 
shortly petioled, more finely crenate, orbicular or cordiform, 
uppermost bracteiform. Upper whorls densely crowded into 
an oblong almost woolly head 1—4 inches long; bracts shorter 
than the calyx, incised; pedicels very short. Calyx 5 inch 
long, between bell-shaped and funnel-shaped, curved, with 
4 short triangular-ovate acute teeth, and one broadly dilated 
orbicular one. Corolla purple, spotted with white and darker 
purple, tube not much exceeding the calyx, dilated at the 
throat ; lips short; upper compressed hairy, 2-lobed ; lower 
with 2 rounded lateral lobes, and a reniform mid-lobe that is 
attached by a broad claw. Stamens short, filaments ciliate ; 
anther-cells divaricate. Disk fleshy, produced behind. 
J.D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, calyx and style; 4, disk and ovary: 
—all enlarged, 
