Drscr. A densely leafy tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, 
much branched; branches slender, decussate, subscabridly 
pubescent, very close together; spines placed above the 
leaves on the old branches only, one-half to three-quarters 
of an inch long, very slender, rigid. Leaves in close decus- 
sating pairs, one-half to one and a half inch long, very shortly 
petioled, spreading and recurved, broadly ovate and acute, 
or orbicular and mucronate, very coriaceous, above bright 
deep-green, pale beneath, midrib impressed above, nerves 
faint ; petiole scaberulous. Flowers solitary or in pairs, axil- 
lary or inserted on the spines, very shortly pedicelled, half 
an inch long, hoary ; pedicel one-sixteenth to one-tenth of an 
inch, scabrid. Caly# very small, shortly toothed. Corolla 
pale blue, tubular, coriaceous, villous within below the 
middle; limb very small, two upper lobes oblong obtuse, 
Jateral and lower broader unequally three-lobed, all sparsely 
villous within. Stamens four, included, with a filiform rudi- 
mentary fifth; filaments papillose; anthers short. Style 
slender, stigma small turbinate. Drupe one-third to one- 
half of an inch in diameter, globose; bright blue; nutlets 
two, horny, each two-celled.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and pistil; 2, flower; 3, corolla laid open; 4, hairs of the corolla- 
tube; 5, 6, 7, anthers; 8, drupe :—all but Jig. 8 enlarged. . 
