A perennial? herbaceous plant. Stem short? upright, 
—Jeafy all the way up. Leaves opposite, subovately or broadly 
elliptic or else oblong, crenate, hirsute, greyish green, the 
larger ones 8 inches or more in length, 6 or more across, 
obtusely and shortly pointed, succulently nerved, often 
purple underneath where the nerves are very prominent, 
lowermost lying flat on the ground: petioles thick, out- 
spread. Flowers many, in an upright leafy terminal raceme, 
violet-coloured, solitary, or by threes in the axils of the 
upper diminished leaves: peduncles upright, round, thick, 
pubescent, longer than the flower. Germen short, turbi- 
nate, pubescent. Calyx upright, continuous with the ger- 
men, five-parted, segments angularly acuminate, upper one 
in a line with the peduncle, rather the largest, distant, the 
rest patent and recurved. Corolla refracted, horizontally 
nodding, long-campanulate, about an inch and a half deep, 
slantingly bilabiate, flattened at the back with a pubescent 
middle ridge, otherwise smooth, ventricose and pale be- 
neath; tube very short, gibbous, with the base facing the 
‘upright segment of the calyx; faux constituting by far the 
larger portion of the corolla, white on the lower part of the 
dnside and spotted with purple; dimb 5-parted, short; upper 
Lip two-lobed reflectent, lower 3-lobed projecting: all the 
‘lobes rounded, and broader than long. Epigynous glands 
‘or corpuscles 6, shaped like teeth, small, yellowish, alter- 
nate with the filaments, surrounding the base of the style. 
_ Filaments inserted at the base of the tube, nearly equal, 
white, smooth, bulbous: the rudiment of the fifth is placed 
behind the style: we saw in one flower a sixth perfect 
stamen in front of the style: anthers cream-coloured, united, 
cernuous, nearly globular, didymous, with a kidney-shaped 
semitransparent thick fleshy receptacle. Style white, as- 
~cendent, an inch long, tubular, bearded at the base: stigma 
hiant, broadest crossways, frosted within. 
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a The stamens, with the rudiment of the fifth and two of the epigynous 
‘glands. 6 The pistil. 
