high, copiously branched, the branches ending in large erect 

 panicles. Stem and branches terete, green. Leaves five to 

 seven inches long, ovate or elliptic, acuminate or produced 

 into a long tail, serrate, base very acute and produced on 

 the petiole, which is one to three inches long ; nerves eight to 

 ten pairs, slender ; upper surface dark green, under red- 

 purple. Panicles -six to twelve inches high, widely spread- 

 ing, and profusely branched ; branches very slender, strict, 

 some forming filiform pedicels, others bearing two very 

 shortly pedicelled flowers; bracts elliptic, caducous. 

 Flowers one and a half inch long, pale blue purple. Calyx 

 narrow, half an inch long, of erect linear obtuse green 

 sepals. Corolla with a ventricose tube and short rounded 

 lobes, which are hardly wrinkled. Stamens small, included. 

 Capsule scarcely longer than the calyx, broadly or narrowly 

 ovate, acute, four-seeded. Seeds ovate, pubescent, obscurely 

 areolate. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Calyx ; 2, corolla laid open ; 3, ovary and disk : — all enlarged. 



