Descr. A small, much and rather tortuously branched herb, 

 with a woody root stock, copiously clothed with glandular 

 hairs; branches ascending, a foot high and less, slender, 

 flexuous, leafy. Leaves alternate, or sometimes a few oppo- 

 site ones on the shoots, spreading and recurved, one-third to 

 two-thirds of an inch long, ovate or ovate-oblong, or lanceo- 

 late, subacute or obtuse, glandular-pubescent on both sur- 



aces, pale green ; nerves very inconspicuous. Flowers sub- 

 erect, an inch long, in short terminal flexuous racemes; 

 pedicels one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long, slender. 

 Calyx-segments short, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acute. 

 Corolla pale rose-coloured, with a yellow palate, pubescent all 

 over ; upper lip with short obtuse reflexed lobes ; lower of 

 two rounded lobes, with a small intermediate one, which is 

 reflexed and very variable in shape, being ovate, oblong, or 

 orbicular. Filaments glabrous. Ovary and style pubescent. 



Capsule broadly ovoid. Seeds deeply pitted. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower; 2, calyx; 3, corolla laid open, showing inside of upper lip and 

 stamens ; 4, stamens ; 5, ovary and style : — all enlarged. 



