span to a foot high, erect, 4-sided, downy, especially above,
branched with opposite branches, and bearing opposite ob-
longo-lanceolate, slightly downy leaves, which are rather
deeply dentato-serrate, acute, 3-nerved at the base; the
lower ones tapering into a stalk, the upper ones sessile, narrower,
and nearly entire. Flowers fragrant, pale sulphur-
yellow, about six in a whorl, and forming a sort of interrupted
spike at the extremity of the stem and branches.
There are bractem or floral leaves at the base of the whorls.
Calyx campanulate, shortly pedicellate, very hairy. 10-
ribbed; its segments subulate and curved upwards. Tube
of the corolla about as long as the calyx i upper lip large,
entire, but crisped at the margin, and slightly convex;
lower one 3-lobed, the lobes rounded and crenate; the
middle one bifid. Seeds or akenia 4, obovate or nearly
globose, glossy-black, smooth on the surface.—W. J. H.
