dular pubescence. Zeaves (the lower ones on long petioles), the 
upper ones sessile, ovate or ovato-oblong, cordate at the base, 
subacute, coarsely and duplicately dentato-serrate, villous, the 
surface wrinkled and asperate, with raised arcole of the reticu- 
lated veins, paler, and somewhat downy beneath. Floral spikes 
very long. /Vhorls of from six to eight nearly sessile flowers; 
each whorl subtended by a pair of opposite, sessile, large, broad- 
ovate, sharply acuminated, spreading or reflexed, striated, sub- 
membranaceous drac?s, pale-green, with streaks of greenish-white. 
Calye campanulate, nearly as long as the tube of the corolla, 
hispid, two-lipped : upper lip of three, sharp, spinulose teeth, 
of which the intermediate one is the shortest ; lower one two- 
toothed. Corolla greenish-white : ube curved, cylindrical, one- 
third the length of the limb: Zimé two-lipped: upper lip longer 
than the lower one, oblong, falcate, compressed, pubescent, and 
hispid; lower lip three-lobed, intermediate lobe sarcate, hairy 
large fleshy disc. Style very long, but included with the com- 
pressed, upper lip: stigma of two, unequal, subulate segments, 
a little exserted. 
Fig. 1. Corolla. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
externally. Stamens included. Ovary four-lobed, seated on a 
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