Gen. Char. Calyx five-parted. Corolla bell-shaped, five-cleft, venCapsule ovate, two-celled. tricose. Spe. Char. Segments of the calyx ovate, acute. upper lip undivided. Leaves downy. Corolla obtuse, The root is biennial, and fibrous; the stalk is erect, simple, tapering, covered with fine hairs or down, and grows to the height of four or five feet; the leaves are large, oval, narrowed towards their points, obtusely serrated, veined, downy, and stand upon short-winged footstalks; the floral leaves or bracteæ, are spear-shaped, sessile, and purplish towards the point; the calyx consists of fine segments, which are eliptical, pointed, nerved, or ribbed, and the uppermost segment is narrower than the others; the flowers grow in a long terminal spike, chiefly on one side; they are large, monopetalous, pendulous, bellshaped, purple, and marked on the inside with little eyes, or dark coloured dots, placed in whitish rings; the tubular part appears inflated, and almost cylindrical, but swelling towards the base, and opening at the limb into four irregular, short, obtuse segments; of these the uppermost is the shortest, appearing truncated or cut off transversely; the peduncles are round, short, villous, and bend downwards by the weight of the flowers; the filaments are two long and two short, white, crooked, inserted in the bottom of the tube, and crowned with large oval yellow anthers; the style is simple, and thickening to |