Coleits] xcvii. LAuiAT.i;. 867 



many-flowereil, nviniorous, the lower om-s more or Ifss distiint, tlio 

 upper ones contiguous ; axillary cymes sessile or suhsessile ; peilicels 

 about ^ in. long, shortly pubescent ; llowers purplish, verging on 

 l)lue, {J in. long ; calyx al)out .,',, in. high in flower, I in. long in 

 fruit, spreading or turning downwards in fruit ; the tube pubescent ; 

 the limb bilabiate, spreading ; one lobe broad and larger than the 

 rest, about Jq in. long in the flower and J- in. long in fruit ; throat 

 naked; corolla curved in a sigmoid manner, subglabrous, slightly 

 puberulous outside with short .scattered hairs, bilabiate ; the lips 

 nigro-punctulate ; the larger lip ] in. long, bent at a right angle 

 at the base, concave-condu{)licate, enclo.sing the andrcecium ; 

 stamens 4, didynamous ; filaments united at the ba.se into a short 

 tube ; style slightly thickened at the apex ; nutlets yellowish, 

 glabrous, ovoid, ._}^ in. long. 



Hin,L.\. — In herbaceous places close to the banks of the Lopollo 

 stream at Fcrrao <la Sola : fl. and fr. end of Jan. 1800. No. 5612. 



U. SYMPHOSTEMON Welw. m.s. in Herb., gen. nov. 



Calyx at the time of flowering obliquely campanulate, gibbous 

 at the back of the base, 5-cleft, sub-bilabiate, in fruit somewhat 

 increased and usually pendulous ; the teeth unecpial, the posterior 

 tooth broadly ovate and obtuse or apiculate, the other teeth 

 narrower and acute ; corolla-tube exserted, shortly tubular-funnel- 

 shaped, not sigmoid, a little curved and gibbous at the back near 

 the base; the throat wide, .sau-cely oblique; the limb bilabiate, 

 the posterior li}) shortly 4-lobed, the anterior one longer entire 

 boat-shaped and laterally embracing the genital organs ; stamens 4, 

 didynamous, declinate, all fertile, falling a little short of the 

 anterior corolla-lip ; filaments widening at the ba.se and united 

 in a short flat lamina inserted on the corolla- throat at the base 

 of the anterior lip ; anthers roundish, the cells confluent ; disk 

 fleshy, produced into 4 thick obovoid glands beside the base of the 

 nutlets ; ovary 4-partite ; style shortly exceeding the corolla-tube, 

 nearly entire ; stigma emarginate at the apex ; nutlets com- 

 pressed, obovoid. 



A nearly glabrous minutely glandular herb; leaves opposite, 

 sub-opposite, sub-ternate, and sub-alternate ; racemes terminal ; 

 pedicels alternate opposite and sub-ternate, bracteate at or near 

 the base, .spreading, 



1. S. insolitus. 



riectranthus insolitus C. H. Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiv. 

 p. 275, t. 6, fig.s. 7 it 8 (July 189!)). 



Perennial, to 12 in. high, very elegant; rootstock tuberous, 

 large, fleshy ; stems .several, erect or ascending, simple or Ijranched 

 near the base, rigid ; leaves sub-linear, narrowed at both ends, 

 herbaceous-green, somewhat rigid, entire or pauci-denticulate, 

 sessile, 'l to 2 in. long by j\r to \ in. broad ; inflorescence 2 to 6 in. 

 long; lower pedicels about } in. long ; bracts ranging up to ] in. 

 long; flowers 1 ^^ ¥ i"- ^^ng, clear blue, glandular; calyx 

 glandular, \ to \ in. long ; style \ in. long. 



