nine inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, base of the 
blade decurrent on the petiole, margin sometimes obscurely 
serrulate or denticulate. Spikes long-peduneled, strict, 
erect, three to eight inches long, narrow, glandular-pube- 
rulous ; bracts loosely imbricating, one-half to three-fourths 
of an inch long, appressed, ovate or obovate, tip rounded 
acute or mucronate, green, strongly veined; bracteoles 
narrowly lanceolate equalling or rather longer than the 
calyx. Calyx minute, about one-tenth of an inch long, 
cleft to the middle into five lanceolate erect glandular- 
pubescent lobes. Corolla one and a quarter to one and a 
half inches long, erect, pale violet-blue; tube very slender, 
curved; throat short, moderately inflated; limb reflexed, 
about three-quarters of an inch in diameter; lobes oblong, 
obtuse, with darker violet veins. Filaments about as long 
as the corolla-lobes. Ovary slender, glandular-pubescent, 
—J. D, A, 
Fig. 1, Bract, bracteoles, and calyx ; 2, portion of corolla and stamens ; 3, stigma ; 
4, ovary :—all enlarged, 
