sometimes loosely scattered round the whole of the green 
branches, scarcely an inch in length, diminishing as they 
ascend to the form of bractes, obversely ovate, tapered to- 
wards their base into a kind of petiole, deeply and widely 
serrate, with pointed teeth, of a thick leathery substance 
and stiff, slightly decurrent, entire or unindented at the 
sides below, bright green, entirely smooth, of a bitterish 
taste. Corymbs compound, terminal, crowdedly fasciculate, 
vonvex, from one to two inches over, composed of fastigiant 
closely scattered corymbules leafy downwards, ‘thickly 
flowered upwards and axillary in the uppermost diminutive 
leaves. Bractes single, one below each flower, lanceolate,’ 
pointed, concave, embracing the calyx and nearly twice its 
length, green. Flowers small, of a highly ‘scented fra- 
grance, calyx pale, corolla pale blue, germen green, fila- 
ments and style white, anthers sulphur-coloured. Calya 
deeply five-cleft, persistent; segments linear, rather obtuse, 
concave, upright, equal. Corolla monopetalous or of one 
piece; tube narrow-funnelform, slightly curved, nearly 
twice as high as the calyx: limb or border five-cleft, spread 
out, twice shorter than the tube; segments oblong, obtuse, 
flat, two lower ones shorter and less deeply parted, forming 
the kind of upper lip to the resupinate corolla. Filaments 
capillary inserted in the tube, two exterior equal to the 
border of the corolla. Anthers oblong, capitate, incumbent, 
adnate to the enlarged apex of the filament. Germen obo- 
vate, compressed, obtuse. Style filiform, upright, longer 
than the stamens. · Stigma simple, obtuse. 
A hardy greenhouse plant, requiring nearly the treat- 
ment of a Cape Heath, and to be: planted in a mixture of 
black peat-mould and hazel-loam. Blossoms in the au- 
tumn. The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs, 
Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith. By no means a com- 
mon plant. We have trusted in a great degree to Jacquin 
in our description, having missed the opportunity of inspect- 
ing the inflorescence until it was too far gone for our 
purpose. 
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