Seeds of this species were lately received by Lady De 

 Clifford from the Cape of Good Hope ; and from these the 

 plant from which our drawing is taken, has been raised at 

 the Nursery of Messrs. Colville in the King's Road, Chelsea. 

 We believe it had been long ago lost in this country. Very 

 ornamental when in flower, of easy culture, and a free 

 blower. 



Shrubby, 1-2 feet high or more: branches axillary, 

 flexuose, varicosely nerved, green, distantly leaved, covered 

 with whitish opaque particles of chrystallized gum, very 

 slightly pubescent at the upper part. Leaves scattered, 

 spreading, longer than the intervals, petioled, 2-3 inches 

 long or more, and generally about half that breadth, Ob- 

 long, subrhomboidally ovate, rounded at the end, cuneate 

 towards the petiole, covered with the same kind of gummy 

 particles as the branches: petiole narrowly bordered: sti- 

 pules (or rather perhaps earlets of the petioles) two, facing 

 each other by the interior edge like the base of a perfoliate 

 leaf, herbaceous, reticulately veined, widespread, «ub- 

 semiorbicularly-oblate, repand, much shorter than the 

 petiole with the border of which they are continuous. 

 Spikes many flowered, upright, fastigiate, close, short: 

 flowers of a whitish blue or french-grey, about 2 inches 

 long, ascending: peduncles one-flowered, very short, or 

 scarcely any : bractes generally in threes, herbaceous, ru- 

 bescent, linearly taper-pointed, recurved, twice shorter than 

 the calyx or more. Calyx green, reddening here and there, 

 twice shorter than the tube of the corolla, tubular, 5-cor- 

 nered, scored by five paler plaits, echinately beset with seti- 

 forin viscously headed fleshy excrescences : tube of the co- 

 rolla slender, linearly clavate, 5-cornered, two or three 

 times longer than the segments of the limb : limb marked 

 with 5 deeper blue rays, segments cuneately obovate. Sta- 

 mens and pistil even with the tube : filaments white, scarcely 

 thicker than the thread of a silk-worm : anthers violet, 

 turned inwards, sagittately linear, upright. Germen nearly 

 round smooth. 



