stems probably several from a perennial rootstock, 3/4–1 ft. high, slender, about 1/2 lin. thick, erect, simple or slightly branched, 4-angled, pubescent; leaves in 3–4 distant pairs, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, 1/4– 3/4 in. broad, those on the axillary shoots smaller, obovate or oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, very acutely tapering into the 1–1 1/2 lin.-long petiole, acutely toothed in the upper half, very sparsely pubescent on both sides or nearly glabrous beneath and the veins but slightly prominent; raceme simple, with 2–4 whorls 1/2–1 in. apart, 6-flowered; flowering-bracts 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, deciduous; terminal 2–3 pairs of bracts flowerless, persistent, spreading, pinkish-red, 6–10 lin. long, 1 1/2–3 lin. broad, lanceolate, very acuminate, tapering into a short petiole, slightly pubescent, ciliate; pedicels 1–2 lin. long, pubescent; calyx-tube 3–3 1/2 lin. long, tubular-campanulate, pubescent outside, minutely puberulous within, darkly coloured; upper tooth 1–1 1/2 lin. long, 1 3/4 lin. broad, obtusely rounded; lateral and lower teeth 1–1 2/3 lin. long, bristle-like from a deltoid base; corolla slightly and minutely pubescent outside; tube 7–7 1/2 lin. long, dilated and compressed in the upper part, glabrous inside; upper lip 3 lin. long, oblong, complicate-concave or somewhat hooded, shortly and obtusely 3-lobed at the apex, the middle lobe 1/2 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad, twice as long as the lateral lobes; lower lip 3–3 1/2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, concave; stamens unequal, the united pair (or all when fully exserted) straight, except at the very apex, which is upcurved; upper pair inserted about 1/4 in. above the base of the corolla-tube, 7 lin. long, at length exserted, their filaments free, flat, ciliate; lower pair inserted at the base of the lower lip, 4 lin. long, their filaments united nearly to the apex, glabrous; stigma shortly bifid, with linear lobes. null
