leaves numerous, blades obovate-spathulate, 3 1/2–7 lin. long, 2–3 1/2 lin. broad, gradually passing into the long whitish petiole, 4–15 lin. long; utricles on sometimes very long stalks (up to 10 lin.), tube 7–8 lin. long, twisted arms over 10 lin. long; peduncle erect, straight or flexuous, simple or branched, up to 1 ft. high, quite glabrous or with a few spreading bristles in the upper part; raceme 3–5-flowered; flowers remote; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, 1 1/2 lin. long, more or less minutely hispidulous, lowest bracts barren; pedicels filiform, 3–5 lin. long in flower, at length up to 10 lin. long, more or less hispid with yellow bristles, particularly in the upper part, rarely glabrous; calyx-segments lanceolate, subacuminate or acuminate, subequal, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, minutely hispidulous; corolla purple with yellow spots on the palate, 4–5 lin. long, upper lip ovate, obtuse, 1 3/4 lin. long; lower lip 2 1/2 lin. long, 3-lobed; lobes short and broad, almost equal, scarcely undulate, palate much raised, lower than the upper lip, scarcely gibbous, spur cylindric from a moderately widened base, 3 1/2 lin. long, obtuse or truncate, sparingly and very minutely hispidulous; filaments curved, very unequally widened upwards, not quite 1/2 lin. long; anthers 3/8 lin. long; ovary densely pubescent above the glabrous base; capsule more or less hairy in the upper part, globose, up to 2 lin. in diam., distinctly circumscissile; seeds obliquely ovoid or almost triangular in profile, up to 1/4 lin. long; embryo hippocrepiform. null
