smaller than any of the rest. Petioles shorter than the 
leaves, terete, flexuose, tubercled ; but in this variety the 
tubercles are small and partial. Peduncles axillary, soli- 
tary, slender, tubercled in «, smooth in #8, longer than the 
petioles, but shorter than the leaves, bearing an umbel or 
cyme of from two to four handsome flowers, each pedicel 
having a bractea at the base. Calyx of five, imbricated, 
broadly oval, concave leaflets, closely appressed to the 
base of the flower. Corolla between hypocrateriform and 
funnel-shaped, of a delicate lilac colour, with a broad five- 
lobed, spreading linb. Germen ona glandular disk. Stegma 
two-lobed, granulated. 
Fig. 1. Pistil :—magnified. 
