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cession of flowers from the extremities of the lengthening branches of 
the panicle, for nearly two months, which renders this lovely plaut 
one of the most charming of the whole natural order that I have yet 
met with. The specific name is taken from the shape of the wings of 
the filament. - eae ! ; 
Root perennial, composed of numerous, aitt: fleshy fibres, 
some fusiform, some columnar.— Stems annual, bending a little to one 
side; from one to two feet high.— Leaves alternate, bifarious, ses 
sile on their sheaths, lanceolate, with a long, withered - filiform point; 
villous on both sides ; length from six to nine iuches, and about one 
and ahalf broad. Sheaths smooth, keeled; s ligula, or stipulary process 
tr uncated.--Scapes radical, from three to four inches long, often several 
arise from the same cluster of roots, erect, enveloped in three or four, 
alternate, smooth, short sheath«.— Panicle erect, about a foot high, 
| including the scape, and expanding nearly as much, the whole a very | 
lively blueish purple. Ramifications alternate, long, simple, diverg- 
ing, bearing in succession numerous, alternate, sessile, small, love- ' 
ly purple and yellow flowers. — Bractes solitary, light purple, smooth ; 
those of the ramifications oblong; those of the flowers cordate.— 
Flowers solitary, sessile in the axils of their proper bractes.— Calyx 
superior, clavate, smooth, light purple ; mouth three-toothed, perma- 
nent, with the lower half of the tube of the corol.— CoroZ ; Tube long 
and very slender ; the lower half, which is inclosed in the tube of the 
calyx, projecting horizontally; the upper half erect; at the angle, D 
which those portions of the tube make with each disc and which is 
nearly a right one, the flower drops, leaving the lower half to witber. 
Border single and three-parted ; upper division erect, pressing on 
the back of the base of the filament, oblong, boat-shaped ; lower 
two divisions obliquely cordate, and reflexed, all the three are of a E 
light purple colour. Lip cuneate, deeply two-parted, much larger i 
than thé divisions of the exterior border, deep orange yellow, formin; 
a ‘Pretty contrast st with the — dem. ple of every other part di the 
reception of the siyle; near the pii are r very 
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