of the shoots, are very densely clustered, and dark brown, 
so as to give the ends of the branches a sooty appearance. 
Leaves opposite, spreading on long, pale, whitish-green, 
round stalks, with which they are jointed ; oblong, cordate 
at base, a little pointed, but blunt at end, flat, quite smooth, 
dark green, with a very distinct pale green rib; paler 
green, and firmly netted beneath, with a very few scat¬ 
tered scales, which are chiefly on the midrib. Flowers 
nearly solitary, cernuous, with a very scaly stalk. Calyx 
long, turbinate, dotted like the stalk with minute brown 
scales, bursting irregularly at the end. Corolla two inches 
long, one inch and a half across the limb, imfundibuliform, 
with a yellowish tube, a little curved, and on the under 
side concave, a hairy prominent palate, and a very delicate 
crumpled, whitish lilac, oblique limb; upper lip *2-lobed, 
lower 3-parted larger; lobes all crenate and ciliaje, the 
lower with [three faint lilac lines along the axis of each. 
Stamens much shorter than tube, united towards its base. 
Rudiment subulate, hairy at base. Filaments smooth. 
Anthers with smooth, divaricating lobes. 
J. L. 
