of curious annuals in the borders of Messrs. Colville’s nur- 
sery in the King's Road, Chelsea. 
Annual; trailing and occasionally in some degree twin- 
ing, from a foot to about a foot and half long, branching, 
distantly leaved, branches round, with rather a woolly fur. 
Leaves scattered, inclining one way, subcordately ovate, 
about an inch and a half long, and about 2 of an inch 
over at the broadest part, nerved, slightly furred: petiole 
thrice shorter than the blade or more. Peduncles soli- 
tary, axillary, one-flowered, filiform, slender, twice as 
long as the petiole, furred, oppositely bibracteate just 
below the calyx; bractes leafy elongatedly lanceolate, pu- 
bescent, spreading, twice longer than the calyx. Calyx 
hairily furred; leaflets elliptically lanceolate, taper-pointed, 
fringed, permanent, two inner ones nearly twice smaller 
than the others, three outer ones nearly of one size, little 
shorter than the corolla. Corolla the smallest of any in the 
genus, azure blue; tube short, pale, limb turbinately rotate. 
Capsule globular, smooth, with a small point at the top, 
two-celled, four-seeded. 
