their silky fur, the longest about two inches in length, shorter 
than the long-piled petioles; stipules subulately linear, up- 
right, long-piled. Ftacemes spiked and long, widishly many- 
flowered; flowers scattered, of a purplish blue colour with 
deeper streaks, bracteose (or intermixed with longish 
bractes) before they open: peduncle (according to M. La- 
gasca) opposite to its leaf; pedicles shaggy, inclining upwards, 
somewhat shorter than the calyx: bractes linearly subulate, 
extremely narrow, longer than the calyx, caducous. Calyx 
shaggy, green, with divaricate lips, the upper one of which 
is split at the end into a notch. Vewillum foldingwise reflexed 
placed astride by the deep plait at the lower part upon the 
upper edges of the ala; alae dolabriform (hatchet-shaped) 
pointed, cohering by their front edges; carina pale, inclining 
upwards, narrow, subulately falcate, the length of the ale, 
with a longish deep violet tapered point. dnthers deep 
yellow, alternate ones linear and shedding their pollen later, 
the other 5 round. Germen setaceously furred: style ascend- 
ing, terminated by a pencilled stigma. 
