should surely be generically divided from L. cardinalis 
and its allies. This whole genus would richly reward any 
botanist for an analytical investigation. 
An undershrub, about two feet high. Stem simple, 
leafy, thick, round, smooth. Leaves persistent, lanceolate, 
or linear-lanceolate, generally about 6 inches long, tapering 
into the stalk, flat, serrulate, quite smooth. lowers yel- 
lowish orange-colour, axillary, much shorter than the 
leaves, solitary, stalked. Peduncle erect, smooth, with 
two bractez in the middle. Calyx smooth, pitted, 5-toothed, 
with subulate, erect, entire teeth. Corolla two-lipped; 
the upper lip with two segments, which are separate as far 
as the base; the dower lip half 3-parted, with one-sided 
segments, which are all linear and channelled, and always 
cohere by the tips. Columna of stamens of the same colour 
as the corolla, shorter than the segments of the corolla, 
and protruding between the two segments of the upper lip. 
Anthers cohering around the top of the style, brown, linear, 
nearly smooth. Stigma two-lobed; lobes anterior and 
posterior, spreading, fleshy, ovate, obtuse. — Ods. The 
segments of the corolla are fringed with very minute 
papillee. ; 
J. L. 
