six inches or more long. Lower floral leaves ovato-lanceolate, 
longer than the calyx ; superior ones broader and shorter. Fracti- 
Jerous calyces seven to eight lines long, shortly pedicellate, erect, 
softly piloso-pubescent, with abbreviated teeth. Corolle beautiful 
white ; the ¢zvde within furnished with a hairy ring. Sfy/e shortly 
inserted. The species varies with the leaves often very narrow 
and more glabrous, the verticillastra sometimes all six-flowered, 
sometimes ten- or more flowered; also in the size and form of 
the floral leaves.” Benth. /. c. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Stamen. 3. Pistil and hypogynous gland :—magnified. 
