Gmelin speaks of a variety with flesh-coloured flowers, 
and of another with white flowers. 
Stems simple, square, ascending, six inches high, rough 
with reflexed hairs at the angles. , Leaves. oblong, obtuse, 
wavy, 3-nerved, stalked, shorter than the joints, beneath 
pubescent. Flowers in twin 8-flowered whorls, spiked, 
somewhat nodding, “shorter ‘than~ the leaf-like bracteze. 
Calyx bowed, purple, funnel-shaped, covered’ with: erect 
‘hairs, 5-toothed ; the four lower teeth subulate and. acute, 
the upper very lar ge, transversely ovate, apiculate. Corolla 
bright sky-blue, twice as long-as the calyx, slightly. pubescent; 
the throat inflated, compressed, the helmet yaulted, two- 
lobed; lobes rounded. Lip with the lateral divisions small, 
obtuse, spreading, dotted at the base with a deeper colour ; 
‘the intermediate one larger, reniform, emarginate, with a 
_dotted disk. Stamens ascending, pressed against the helmet, 
didynamous; the lower pair shortest, coming up as high as 
-the base of the.helmet; the upper pair.a little shorter than 
the helmet. Ovaria 4, very small, inserted in a fleshy disk. 
Style. filiform. Stigma exserted, 2-lobed; the lobes at 
-length curved backwards, with respect. to .the axis of the 
- flower anterior and posterior. 
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