nal and axillary, of several rather long, bright blue, slightly tinged 

 with purple, sessile floioers, each with a bractiform.leaf, and each 

 again subtended by three lesser almost lanceolate hairy bracteas. 

 Calyx with the tube oval, combined with the ovary, and crowned 

 with an elevated truncated margin. Corolla hairy externally and 

 beautifully ciliated at the margins ; tube slit for the whole length 

 above, exposing to view the stamens and pistil. Limb spreading, 

 secund, of five obovate and margined lobes, waved at the margins ; 

 at their base are several pedicellated glands. Stamens much 

 shorter than the tube. Style nearly equal to the tube in length, 

 hairy. Stigma clavate ; the indusium two-lipped. 



Fig. 1. Flowers and branches, slightly magnified. 



