ends of the branches, opposite, four to six inches long, shortly 

 petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, obtusely serrate, dark 

 bluish-green and shining- above, with sunk veins and scat- 

 tered short hairs, bright red-purple and hairy below. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, solitary, one-third as long as the leaves, an- 

 gular, one-flowered^ with two subulate bracts at the base. 

 Calyx of five, large, leafy, triangular, cordate, acute, green 

 sepals, with undulate, recurved margins. Corolla an inch 

 and a half long, white ; tube curved upwards, inflated and 

 gibbous below, villous with long hairs ; mouth contracted ; 

 lobes short, broad, rounded, glabrous. Stamens included ; an- 

 thers cohering. Ovary villous. — J. I). H. 



Fig. 1. Base of calyx and ovary : — magnified. 



