short, soft hairs. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, broad and 

 cordate at the base, tapering to an acute point at the 

 apex, quite entire, penninerved, petiolate. Petioles short, 

 scarcely half an inch long. Peduncles from the axils of 

 almost every leaf, but shorter than the leaf, solitary, single- 

 flowered, and sensibly thickened below the calyx, bear- 

 ing a pair of rather large, ovato - acuminated, sessile, 

 spreading bracteas, a little above the middle. Calyx of five 

 unequal sepals, three large, triangular and acute, two 

 small, subulate. Corolla purple, rather large ; the tube 

 funnel-shaped, the limb spreading, plicate, obscurely five- 

 angled. Stamens inserted near the base of the tube, two 

 long and three short, all included. Filaments subulate, 

 woolly at the base. Anthers linear-oblong. Germen ovate ; 

 surrounded by an annular disk. Style longer than the short 

 stamens. Stigjnas two-lobed. Capsule globose, four-valved, 

 four-seeded. 



Fig. 1. Base of the Corolla laid open. 2. Capsule and withered Style : 

 ■ — nat. size. 3. Capsule burst. 4. Seed : — magnified. 



