native specimens. ASvem tall, erect, robust, cylindric, often 
branched above. Leaves, the lower ovate-oblong or lanceolate 
subacute, four to five inches long, long petioled, coarsely toothed); 
the upper more deltoid-ovate, connate by their very broad 
bases. Panicle much branched, thyrsoid, a foot long, strict, 
erect, very many-flowered, leafless; bracts and _bracteoles 
small, subulate-lanceolate, green. Flowers erecto-patent, one 
and a half inches long. Sepa/s ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. 
Corolla-tube constricted at the base, then dilated campanulate 
and ventricose, especially below; upper surface rose-purple, 
lower almost white ; limb 2-lipped, upper lip broad, recurved, 
2-lobed, dark purple, lower of 3 equal rounded lobes also re- 
curved, pale rose with purple streaks at the base of each 
lobe. Stamens included, quite glabrous, filaments slender, 
curved ; anthers short, reniform; staminode with a slender 
stipes and spathulate densely vilious blade that lies on the 
lower lip, and is exserted. Ovary glabrous; style very 
slender.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of side shoot and leaf; 2, portion of upper part of stem 
and upper leaves :—both of the natural size ; 3, calyx and ovary ; 4, base of 
corolla, stamens and staminode :—magnijied. 
