Marca 27, 1915] Two HuxDreD Twenty Six New Spectes~I -2695 
bracts in their axils, dull brown on both sides when dry, 
glistening soft tomentose above, less so beneath; midrib 
straight, with 2 pairs of lateral nerves arising from the base 
and 3 extra pairs farther up, all the lateral pairs ascend- 
ing except the lower basal pair which is divaricate, all nu- 
merously reticulated toward the distal ends, other reticulations 
also numerous and well raised beneath; petiole 1.5 to 3 cm 
long, slender, yellowish hairy. Inflorescence erect, few panic- 
ulately branched, terminal, 1 to 2 dm long, usually 3-stalked 
from the same place but often with a single stalk from the 
upper leaf axils, the larger ones branched from below the 
middle, the ultimate ones unbranched and as long; all stalks 
subolivaceus pubescent, square, longitudinally fluted, green 
and reddish tinged along the upper side, curing dull brown; 
flowers grouped in opposite clusters, divaricate, aromatic as 
well as the foliage, light blue; pedicels divaricate, clustered 
in whorls, 2 mm long, finely pubescent, relatively thick; ca- 
lyx campanulate, 2.5 mm long, the basal two thirds united, 
rounded at the base, similarly pubescent on the outside; the 
lower 4 teeth 1 mm long at least and sharply pointed, the 
upper tooth or the fifth one very broad and with 3 veins; 
corolla 6 to 7 mm long, delicate in texture, crooked at 
about the middle or a trifle below it and tubular below 
this, the tube glabrous, 1.25 mm thick and hyaline toward 
the base, bilipped from near the middle; upper lip almost 
straight, 3 mm long, broadly elliptic, margins not ciliate; 
lower lip at right angle, a trifle shorter, deeply notched at the 
apex thereby forming 2 orbicularly obovate lobes, the basal 
portion broad and folded along the upper or ventral side, 
lobes hyaline and ciliately margined; stamens apparently 4, 
inserted at the throat of the upper lip, ascending and more 
or less enclosed by the lobe; filaments slender, glabrous, 1.5 
mm long, curved toward the distal ends; anthers versatile, 
oblong, 0.5 mm long, obscurely compressed and somewhat 
curved, ventrally dehiscent; style very slender and glabrous, 
equalling the corolla, extending along the inner side of the 
upper one half of the corolla, terminated by 2 flattened lin- 
ear recurved stigmatic lobes; ovary likewise glabrous, 4 or 
5-lobulate, small, sessile. 
Type specimen number 11501, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
