those near the base of the stem excepted, which are placed
S or 4 in a whorl; on the barren stems they are lanceolate,
ovate, or elliptical, and 3 together. The flowers are placed
in a short raceme, which is elongated as the fruit ripens.
They are purple with darker veins; the upper lip linear,
broad and deeply divided into two oblong rounded segments
; the lower lip 3-lobed, the lobes roundish, the palate
gibbous, large, paler than the rest of the corolla; spur long,
straight, subulate. The anthers pale with a darker margin
; the pollen bright yellow; style pale, its top purple,
with an incurved hemispherical yellow stigma. Calyx of
5 linear-lanceolate acute sepals, which are rather longer
than the tube of the corolla, and twice as long as the bilobed
germen. Capsule twice as broad as long, its lobes spherical
and divided by a deep notch. Bracteas about equal
to the peduncle or rather longer, similar to the leaves.
Seeds nearly flat, surrounded by an orbicular fringed wing,
externally nearly smooth, minutely tubercular within.
The specimens of this elegant plant were gathered June
5, 1838, on the slope of a hill facing the south, amongst
JJlex europceus, by the side of a road leading from a watermill,
near St. Ouen’s pond, to St. Peter’s, Jersey, where
it was discovered by myself, in company with Messrs. W.
Christy, Jun., and R. M. Lingwood, during the preceding
autumn. It has not been noticed in any other part of the
Channel Islands.— C. C. B.