It is a neat, rather handsome species when in flower. 

 It is too tender to be left all winter without protection, but 

 grows freely out of doors in the summer, flowering in July 

 and August. Propagated by cuttings. 



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A shrub with divaricate, nearly taper, branches, which, 

 when young, are hoary and downy. Leaves small, oblong 



obtuse, crenated, rugose, tapering at the 



shorter than the 



oblong 



base to a short petiole; the floral 



caly 

 dicels 



Flowers somewhat secund, opposite, on short pe 



Caly 



campanulate, smooth, veiny, with 



qual acute teeth. Corolla campanulate 



•ly 



ely twice 



long as the calyx, smooth, pale blue, the throat very 

 much inflated, the lobes of the limb short, nearly erect, 

 the upper lip bifid, the lower trifid, with the middle lobe 

 emarginate. • 



J. L. 



