deeply indebted. Its flowering season with us is the latter 
end of winter, when several of the numerous purple spikes 
have a succession of flowers; two on each, never more, 
being open at one time. 
_ Descr. Stem two to three feet high, shrubby below, 
~ much branched ; branches erect, glabrous, the younger ones 
quadrangular. Leaves opposite, unequal, oval, much acu- 
minated, oblique, obscurely crenato-serrate, tapering at the 
base into a winged petiole ; often of a fine purple beneath, 
nerves oblique, united by reticulated nervelets, slightly 
prominent above, much so below. Spikes axillary and 
terminal. Bracteas imbricated, in four rows, broadly ovate 
or rounded, coloured, somewhat spreading, cuneate below, 
clothed with glandular down. Calyx in five deep-coloured, 
spathulate segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, the lower 
a of the tube yellow and much curved, the rest bright 
_ bluish-purple, vue and reticulated : the limb of five nearly 
equal, rounded lobes. Filaments declined, hairy at the 
base on one side; the two longer ones reaching a little 
beyond the mouth, Style rather longer than the longest - 
stamens. 
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