Descr. A shrub with very obtusely angled, four-sided 

 branches, slightly pubescent. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, 

 rather acute, entire, many -nerved, the nerves close and 

 parallel, and these united by slender cross nerves. Petioles 

 thick. Stipules ovate, acute, opposite. Flowers in a large, 

 handsome, subsessile, cyme. Calyx downy, with five, erect, 

 very unequal, spathulate segments, the shortest of them 

 longer than the tube. Corolla rich, but pale, violet blue: 

 tube two and a-half to three inches long, enlarged upwards, 

 where the stamens are inserted : limb of five spreading, ovate 

 segments. Anthers included. Ovary inferior, two-celled, with 

 several ovules on fleshy placentae. Style filiform. Stigma 

 bifid ; the segments linear. 



Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Section of the Ovary : — magnified. 



