latter one-seeded. A beautiful exemplification of the mo- 
dern theory, that all multilocular pericarps are really formed 
by the coalescence of many simple fruits, differing only in 
the various modifications of cohesion and solubility of their 
parts. 
Stem prostrate, round, with scattered, spreading, weak 
hairs, and mottled all over with dull red. Leaves in pairs, 
inserted only on one side, ovate, obtuse, stalked, fleshy, 
towards the base fringed with a few weak hairs. Flowers 
solitary, out of the axillze of the leaves, stalked, expanding 
in the open sun; their stalks hairy. Calyx 5-cleft, campa- 
nulate, slightly hairy, with triangular erect segments which 
have no kind of appendage at their base. Corolla large, 
campanulate, with a 10-lobed, blue limb and a whitish 
throat. Ovaries 20, heaped about the base of the style. 
Nuculce, by abortion, 4-6, one-seeded, with a thick hardish 
pericarp, a smooth putamen, and a broad scar at the base, 
with only one areola. 
J. L. 
