and a half high, throughout nearly herbaceous or suffruticose 
only at the base ; stems and éranches square, the angles rather 
obtuse, a little hairy at the joints. eaves rhomboidal ovate, 
membranaceous, deeply and coarsely inciso-serrate at the margin, 
the apex acuminate, entire as well as the base, which is gradually 
attenuated into a more or less elongated petiole, hairy at the 
sides : the colour of the leaf is yellowish-green, the whole disc dark 
purple or sanguineous, breaking into spots near the margin ; the 
principal nerves are obliquely erect, running almost parallel to 
the midrib. Inflorescence a terminal elongated whorled spike or 
raceme. Whorls of about six flowers or more. Pedicels very 
short. Calya small, hairy. Tube short, subglobose: /imé five- 
lobed; upper lobe much the largest, oblong, not decurrent at 
the base, two lateral lobes short, two inferior ones linear, ap- 
proximate. Corolla purple and white, moderately large, resupi- 
nate, hairy on the back: ¢w4e funnel-shaped, suddenly refracted : 
limb of two large lips; lower one ovate acute, cymbiform, the 
upper shorter, broad, oval reflexed, spreading, three-lobed, the 
middle lobe bifid. Stamens and style included in the hollow of 
the inferior lip. 
Fig. 1. Front; and 2, Side view of a flower :—magnified. 
