Empalement. Cup one-leaf, tubular, angular, five shallow clefts, taper, permanent; toothless taper, awl-shaped, nearly equal.
Blossom one petal, gaping; tube very short; mouth oblong, hunched downwards towards the base; upper lip upright, rather egg-shaped, arched, often notched at the end; lower lip large, three-cleft, side ones reflexed; the middle segment, which is the largest, notched at the end, and folded back.
Chives. Four threads, of which two are shorter, awl-shaped, bent to the sides of the mouth. Tips simple.
Pointal. Seed-bud with four divisions. Shaft thread-shaped, of the length and situation of the chives. Summit cloven, sharp-pointed.
Seed-vessel none. The cup scarce changed.
Seeds four, egg-shaped, angular.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Stachys verticillis sexfloris; foliis ovato-oblongis, basi cordatis, crenatis; floribus coccineis.
Clownheal with six flowered whorls; leaves oblong-egg-shaped, heart-shaped at the base, scolloped; flowers scarlet.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.