half an inch long, far acuminate with a point resembling a 
small prickle, recurved at the margin, denticulately and 
roughly edged, wrinkly veined and shagreened on the upper 
side, thinly and caducously pubescent, villous and grey at 
the underside, where the veins are varicose, very shortly 
petioled: petioles glandular, thick, wrinkled, stipulate: 
stipules 2, opposite, membranous, purple, linearly elongated, 
extremely narrow, pointed, recurved and divaricate.’ Flowers 
numerous, solitary, axillary, about the length of the leaves, 
representing as they are placed along the branches long 
spikelike leafy racemes: peduncles filiform, dark-red, slightly 
villous, shorter than the flower, with two minute opposite 
bractes near the calyx. Calyx turbinately campanulate 5- 
cleft, with a very unequally bilabiate limb; upper lip folded, 
reatly the largest, subtruncately round, notched in the 
middle of the margin; lower lip 3-parted with small equal 
subulate parallel recurved segments. Corolla about half an 
inch long, purple and yellow, twice the length of the calyx; 
but we had no opportunity of observing it before it was 
decayed. 
The genus has been named after Boissieu-Lamartiniére, — 
2 french naturalist. 
