apparently a branching shrub; stems or branches rather stout, 1 1/4–3 lin. thick, obtusely 4-angled, grooved down the sides, very shortly tomentose; leaves small, petiolate, lanceolate, ovate, elliptic or orbicular, acute or obtuse and apiculate, entire or slightly toothed, densely gland-dotted, thinly and minutely pubescent or glabrous on both sides; petiole 1/2–3 lin. long; blade 2–6 lin. long, 1 1/3–5 lin. broad; panicle a dense oblong spike-like mass 1 1/4–5 in. long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. in diam., with short erect branches; bracts caducous, about 3 lin. long, 2–2 2/3 lin. broad, orbicular, abruptly cuspidate, thinly and minutely pubescent or glabrous, with a few glands on the back, often woolly-ciliate; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, pubescent; calyx unequally 5-toothed; tube 3 1/2 lin. long, tubular, thinly pubescent outside, glabrous within; upper tooth 1–1 3/4 lin. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad at the base, whence it gradually tapers to an acute point, not decurrent on the tube; lateral teeth 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long, connate in pairs for about 1/3 of their length, with the connate part deltoid and the free tips bristle-like or subulate, thinly ciliate or glabrous; corolla very much exserted, glabrous, pink, crimson or white; tube 8–10 lin. long, gradually enlarging upwards, straight, compressed; slightly arched behind the apex; upper lip 2 1/2–3 lin. long, unequally 3-lobed; terminal lobe about 3/4 lin. long, 2/3 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse; lateral lobes much smaller, rounded; lower lip reflexed, 1 1/2–3 1/4 lin. long, boat-shaped, obtuse, slightly and minutely ciliate; stamens much exserted, slightly unequal, at length (at least in some specimens) recurved or spirally coiled under the lower side of the corolla; upper pair inserted about 3 1/2 lin. above the base of the corolla, 8–10 lin. long, their filaments free, glabrous; lower pair inserted at the base of the lip, 4–5 lin. long, their filaments united to the apex, glabrous; stigma minutely bifid; nutlets 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, compressed, light brown, shining. null
