flowers smaller, of a brighter colour, deeply bipartite, the 
upper lip bifid, the segments much reflexed, not split down 
so far that the stamens are excluded as in the last named 
species. : \ 
Descr. The root is perennial. Stem erect, simple, two 
to three feet high, angled, very slightly downy. Leaves 
alternate, remote, three to four inches long, oblong or ellip- 
tical-lanceolate, sessile, dentato-serrate, in our specimens 
nearly glabrous, gradually smaller upwards ; the radical 
ones subspathulate. Spike eight to ten inches to a foot 
long, slender, lax. Flowers on short pedicels, spreading, 
bracteated ; bracteas lanceolate, wavy, with glandular serra- 
tures. Calyx-segments almost as long as the tube of the 
- corolla, erect, lanceolato-subulate, entire, edged with red, 
the sinuses reflexed.- Corolla bright purplish-blue, divided 
almost to the base into two portions ; the upper one linear, 
bifid, the segments acute, reflexed, the lower broad and 
reflexed at the extremity, three-lobed, with two oval, white, 
protuberant spots, the lobes ovate. Stamens included in 
the corolla. 
Fig. 1. Calyx with the upper Lip of the Corolla, Stamens, and Pistil.. 2. 
Lower Lip removed from fig. 1 :—magnijfied. 
