for the upper half, more or less pubescent on both 

 surfaces, convex above with rather recurved margins, 

 narrowed at the base into a petiole one-eighth to a quarter 

 of an inch long. Racemes or panicles terminal, sessile, erect, 

 simple or thyrsoid, dense or lax-flowered, leafy at the base, 

 and with smaller leaves at the base of the divisions. Flowers 

 three-quarters of an inch long, spreading, shortly pedicelled, 

 pedicels with a small bract at the base. Calyx-tube sub- 

 globose, hispid or tomentose ; lobes subulate-lanceolate, 

 very acute, as long as the tube. Corolla white, quite 

 glabrous, tube cylindric ; petals with long straight linear 

 claw and short oblong: rounded limb. — J. D. II. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, ovary and base of calyx tube; 5, transverse 

 section of ovary -.—all enlarged. 



