A smooth, many-stemmed, little shrub. Branches very 
slender, angular. Leaves scattered, linear, 3-cornered, 
spreading. Lowers orange-coloured, axillary at the top of 
the little branches, solitary, nodding, stalked. Peduncle 
filiform, twice as long as leaves. Calyx 5-leaved, spread- 
ing, with linear, acute sepals. Corolla 2-lipped, resupi- 
nate; slit on one side; tube subcylindrical, smooth, hairy 
inside at the base, 5-angled, angles alternate with seg- 
ments of corolla; one lip consisting of two half-elliptical- 
lanceolate, acuminate, conniving lobes, the other lip with 
three spreading, clawed, deeply obcordate, point-letted. 
lobes, which are 2-nerved, the middle space being flat, 
the lateral spaces plaited. Stamens 9, inserted at the. base 
of the tube, and a little longer than its hairiness. éla- 
ments filiform, smooth, dilated at base. Anthers linear. 
Ovary inferior, continuous with the peduncle. Style the 
length of tube of corolla, straight, with a few glands, nar- 
rowed by degrees towards the end. Indusium purple, 
downy, cup-shaped, compressed, 2-lipped. Stigma small, 
transverse, lying in the bottom of indusium. 
‘ J.L. 
