half inches long by two inches diameter. The genus is a 

 large one, and contains very many beautiful species. 



Descr. A small, quite glabrous shrub ; our first year's plants 

 are twelve to eighteen inches high, but will probably attain 

 three or four feet. Stems branched, shrubby, terete. Leaves 

 two to four inches long, shortly petioled, lanceolate or oblong 

 or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rather rough at the margin, 

 coriaceous, glaucous below ; nerves distinct, running very 

 obliquely. Flowers in very short terminal spikes, or axillary 

 in the uppermost leaves. Calyx one and a half inch long ; 

 outer sepals very narrow subulate, not half the length of the 

 inner, which are oblong, obtuse, convex, nerved. Corolla 

 large, pale purple ; tube as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped, 

 paler ; lobes spreading, orbicular, each one-third of an inch 

 in diameter, inner rather smaller, two upper with a dark pur- 

 ple blotch in the centre. Stamens two, with three stami- 

 nodes ; filaments glabrous ; anthers oblong, purple. Stigma 

 narrow, very obliquely bifid. — J. I). H. 



Fig. 1. Calyx, — nat. size. 2. Base of corolla and stamens. 3. Germen s — 

 magnified. 



