This is not a very handsome species, and our chief 
motive for publishing it has been for the sake of clearing 
up the obscurity which has been supposed to attend it. 
It has not been before figured. 
Stem erect, branched, square, striated, rough. Leaves 
very rough, ovate-lanceolate, unequally serrated, acute, 
reticulated with projecting veins beneath. Spikes filiform, 
flexuose, naked, 4-5-inches long, in corymbose panicles. 
Flowers densely. imbricated, sessile in the teeth of the 
rachis. Bractee rigid, subulate, scabrous, shorter than 
the calyxes, and sheathing at the base. Calyx tubular, 
with 5 plaits, and 5 minute, unequal teeth. Corolla hypo- 
crateriform; the neck of the tube downy outside; the limb 
dark blue, with a deeper-coloured eye, and obtuse seg- 
ments. Stamens 4, on short filaments. * 
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