Annual, 15-30 inches high; dividing into branches im- 
mediately above the crown of the root. Branches 4-cornered, 
generally upright, sometimes recumbent for the lower half 
or thereabouts ; leafy only at their upper extremity, closely . 
and shortly furred. Leaves opposite, spreading, near, sessile, 
2-2 inches long, 6-8 lines broad, shortly furred on both 
‘sides; slightly indented at the edge. Flowers violet-coloured, 
axillary, solitary: peduncles long. Calyx deeply five-cleft, 
two segments closer than the rest. Corolla subbilabiate, 
distended ; tube short cylindric; faux vaulted; upper lip 
bipartite; lower lip much larger, tripartite, the middle seg- 
ment larger and enlarged at the base in the form of a slip- 
per, rounded at the end. Stamens 4 attached to the tube of 
the corolla: filaments unequal, shorter than the corolla, — 
slightly bowed and furred their whole length: anthers 2- 
celled, yellow; cells divergent, pointed. Germen spherical, 
pubescent: style very short: stigmas pointed. Capsule. 
spherical, depressed, girded at the base by the calyx which 
becomes slightly fleshy, marked from bottom to top on the — 
outside by 4 furrows, opening at the upper part into 2 cells; 
both valves splitting at the top into 2 parts: seeds nume- 
rous, small, wedge-shaped, attached to a fleshy receptacle, 
_ with a pitted membranous coating. = 
We trust to the work we have cited for all we haye said 
of our plant ; not having had an opportunity of describing 
from the living plant. 
