bractes, a corolla of a different colour, and a small mem- 
branous calyx instead of a large foliaceous one. 
A twining shrub; stem and branches round, smooth. 
Leaves oblongly cordate or subovate, taper-pointed, with a 
midrib furnished on each side with numerous parallel diva- 
ricately ascending nerves, reticulately veined underneath, 
slightly villous at the edge, quite naked on the upper side, 
the larger ones about three inches long, sometimes subhas- 
tatedly cordate at the base with a shallow but very broad 
sinus, in the younger ones the sinus is always narrow: 
petiole slightly napped, from an inch to an inch and a half 
long or longer. Peduncles axillary, solitary, from two to 
six inches long or more, filiform, slender, firm and elastic, 
ascending, slightly napped, terminated by a several-(about 
5?)-flowered subtrichotomous somewhat leafy cyme with a 
pair of small leaves or bractes at the forks of the divisions. 
Calyx leafy, thin, veined, parted to the base, leaflets up- 
right, unequal, ovate, taper-pointed, fringed, 2 much 
larger than the rest facing each other shutting in the flower- 
bud and reflexed at the sides. Corolla blue, rotate, with a 
star of five paler points, five-lobed and cornered. Filaments 
equal, bearded at the base: anthers pale. Style white, un- 
divided: stigmas two, divaricate and reflexed, oblong, cy- 
lindrical, short, frosted, whitish. 
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N. The stigmas in the outline of the dissection are somewhat magnified. 
