petioled, 1-2 inches long, and at the broadest part twice as 

 narrow as long 1 , somewhat wrinkled, of a lively green; 

 owing to the petiole being shorter than the sinus at their 

 base, they have the appearance of stemclaspers. Flowers 

 white, subsessile: peduncles solitary, axillary, very short, 

 3-4-flowered ; pedicles one-flowered very short : bractes close- 

 pressed, long-pointed, a great deal shorter than the calyx. 

 Calyx herbaceous, a third shorter than the corolla, with 

 linearly lanceolate hairily ciliated segments. Corolla rotate, 

 scarcely exceeding one fourth of an inch in diameter, hairy 

 on the outside: tube very short. Styles two, white, 

 bipartite. Germen detached, smooth, green. 



