Descr. A small suffruticose plant, two to three feet high, 

 with opposite and downy, spreading or drooping, branches ; 

 and opposite and more or less downy or hairy leaves: the 

 latter are two to four or five inches long, lanceolate, more or 

 less acuminate at both ends, nearly sessile, the margin cili- 

 ated. Peduncles axillary, opposite, leafy, axillary, generally 

 pendent ; or they may be called flowering branches : the 

 blossoms forming terminal, leafy, trichotomous cymes. Calyx 

 of five, erect, close-placed sepals, lanceolate, acuminate, keeled 

 and winged on the back. Corolla funnel-shaped, yellow, 

 long; the tube narrow at the base, gradually enlarging 

 upwards, and terminating in a deeply five-lobed limb ; 

 the segments oblong, acuminate, spreading. Stamens five. 

 Filaments longer than the tube, thus exserted. Anthers 

 oblong, acute. Style larger than the stamens. Stigma capi- 

 tate, two-lobed. 



Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Pistil. 



