Drscr. An erect herb, woody below, quite glabrous. 
Branches strict, green, articulate; internodes obtusely 
-4-angled, swollen at the nodes. Leaves opposite, four to 
seven inches long, shortly petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, ob- 
tusely acuminate, quite entire, bright green above, pale 
beneath. Inflorescence a terminal contracted sessile erect 
obtuse dense-flowered thyrsoid panicle; lower bracts leafy, 
upper small, hidden amongst the flowers; bracteoles two, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, exceeding the calyx, much shorter 
than the corolla; pedicels very short, angled. Calyz of five 
_ subequal subulate teeth, brownish-purple, much shorter than 
the corolla-tube. Corolla-tube stout, geniculately inflexed 
below the middle, rather turgid at the very base, white, the 
throat yellow within the lower lip; throat inflated, villous 
within ; limb of five spreading and recurved ovate subacute 
lobes, the lower broadest, all white and reticulated with pink 
nerves. Stamens two, with no traces of rudimentary ones, 
inserted in the throat opposite the lower lip ; filaments in- 
curved; anthers, linear-oblong, apiculate, papillose on the 
back, cells connate throughout their length. Ovary 2-celled, 
cells 4-ovuled ; style slender, stigma minutely 2-fid—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, corolla laid open; 3, anther; 4, flower with corolla 
removed; 5, vertical and transverse sections of ovary :—all magnified. 
