long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, crenulate, base rounded, 
rarely acute, rugulose, covered with cobwebby wool, especi- 
ally beneath, where they are snow white ; petiole one to two 
inches long, cottony. Punicle very large, with stiff erecto- 
patent branches, glandular-pubescent, as are the bracts and 
calyces. Bracts orbicular-ovate, with acuminate spinescent — 
tips, membranous, ciliate, white with green borders. Flowers 
sessile, nearly two inches long. Calyz green, tubular-cam- 
panulate, ribs almost hispid; lips short, upper with three 
minute spinous teeth, lower bifid, the tecth aristate. Corolla 
white ; tube twice as long as the calyx, slender, curved, in- 
flated below the lower lip; upper lip oblong, compressed, 
obtuse, puberulous, lower small; lateral lobes small, re- 
curved; mid-lobe nearly orbicular, notched. Conneectives 
produced downward and ending abruptly in a broad plate. 
Nucules nearly orbicular, compressed from back to front, 
ane keeled in front, smooth, pale, elegantly veined— 
Fig. 1, Flower—enlarged. 
