apparently a tall herb; stems angular, velvety; leaves in whorls of 3; petiole 1–2 1/2 lin. long; blade 1–2 1/2 in. long, 5–13 lin. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, cuneate at the base, serrulate or crenate-dentate, minutely adpressed-pubescent above, minutely subtomentose beneath; panicle somewhat corymbose, with simple raceme-like branches; whorls 2–3 lin. apart, 2–3-flowered; bracts 1/2–2 lin. long, about 1/4 lin. broad, linear, acute, minutely pubescent, persistent; pedicels 3/4–2 lin. long, pubescent; flowering-calyx somewhat ovoid-campanulate, shortly 5-toothed, pubescent and densely covered with minute glands outside, glandular inside at the upper part and pubescent on the teeth; teeth subequal, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, ovate or deltoid-ovate, subobtuse; fruiting-calyx much enlarged, becoming fleshy, subglobose, nearly closed at the mouth, 1/4 in. in diam., orange-yellow; corolla about 2 1/2 lin. long, exserted, glandular outside on the upper part; tube 2 lin. long, straight, slightly enlarging upwards; upper lip erect, about 1 lin. long, with 4 small unequal lobes, pubescent on the back; lower lip 3/4 lin. long, orbicular, concave, obtuse; stamens all free, inserted at the upper part of the corolla-tube; upper pair reduced to staminodes, with very rudimentary anthers, included; lower pair fertile, 1 1/4 lin. long, exserted; style stout in proportion to the flower, glabrous, exserted, incurved at the apex; stigma minutely 2-lobed, obtuse; nutlets dorsally compressed, orbicular in outline, 1–1 1/4 lin. in diam., brown. null
