resembling that of a house-leek, each leaf spathulate- 
oblong, obtuse, } in. long, about 1-4 in. wide, flat above, 
bluntly keeled behind, margin ciliate but not glandular, 
elsewhere glabrous except for the glandular-ciliate tip. 
Flowers rather showy; pedicels glandular-pilose, about 
3 in. long. Sepals wide-oblong, obtuse, ;!; in. long, the 
lower close together, glandular-ciliate. Corolla purple, 
tube very short, white; upper lip 2-fid, lobes linear- 
oblong, slightly widened upwards, nearly 3 in. long, } in. 
wide; lower lip deeply 3-partite, lobes linear-oblong, 
widened upwards, somewhat truncate, the central lobe 
quite 4 in. long, } in. wide, rather shorter but hardly 
narrower than the lateral lobes; mouth densely beset 
with white hairs; spur slender, 2-toothed at the tip, 
purplish, over 1 in. long, horizontally spreading or 
somewhat descending, sparsely glandular-puberulous. 
Stigma closely applied to the base of the upper lip of the 
corolla; upper stigmatic lobe minute, pointed, lower 
broadly suborbicular. 
Fig. 1, portion of a summer-leaf; 2, base of a flower, laid open; 3 and 4, 
pistil; 5, a winter-rosette; 6, a winter-leaf; 7, latest phase of stage of 
transition from a summer- to a winter-rosette:—all enlarged except 5 and 7, 
_ which are of natural size. 
