glandular, and viscid pubescence. Leaves opposite, lance- 
olate, sessile, acuminate, regularly serrated, nerved: those 
of the flowers much smaller and broadest at the.base ; they 
might rather be considered bracteas. Flowers handsome, 
in long, terminal, leafy or bracteated racemes. Pedicels 
solitary in each bractea, and shorter than it. Calyx of five 
deep segments, the two lower ones deeper and larger than 
the rest, glanduloso-pilose. Corolla (as in the Genus) pur- 
ple, white in the centre, dotted with red. Stamens includ- 
ed: Anthers with the cells divaricated. Pistil pyramidal, 
hairy : Germen globose, green, tapering into a white style. 
Stigma an acute point. 
Fig. 1. 2. Flowers. 3, Calyx. 4. Stamens. 5, Pistil :—magnified. 
