Ilarveya] lxxxix. scEOPHULARiACEyE. 781 



apparently parasitical ; leaves opposite, oval-oblong or narrowly 

 obovate, obtuse at the apex, narrowed towards the sessile base, 

 herbaceous, f to 1 in. long, about \ in. broad, the lower ones 

 smaller and squamiform ; flowers solitary in the upper axils, 

 spreading, about lA in. long ; peduncles about \ in. long ; calyx 

 nearly an inch long, about \ in. broad, tubular, somewhat inflated 

 or at least very loosely surrounding the middle of the corolla-tube ; 

 the lobes 5, subequal, ovate-lanceolate, i to J in. long ; corolla 

 sub-bilabiate, glandular puberulous outside, the tube narrowly 

 tubular below where included in the calyx-tube, inflated some- 

 what ventricose and yellow above where exserted ; the limb 

 about f in. in diameter, blue ; with obovate segments which are 

 about \ in. long ; style curved near the apex, about equalling the 

 corolla-tube ; stigma broadly obovoid. 



Htjilla. — In Panda forests between Bordo da Terra and the Ivant ila 

 lake, one specimen ; fl. 28 Feb. 1860. No. 5840. 



Differs from H. scarlatina Hook, by shorter calyx, etc. 



