bearing several wiry, slender, patent, rigid, alternate branchlets, ap- 

 presso-pubescent. Leaves hairy in the same way, small, especially 

 the ultimate branches, all of them patent or reflexed, lanceolate, 

 acute, entire, the smaller ones almost linear, the larger ones taper- 

 ing below, but scarcely petiolate. Floivers terminal on the leafy 

 branches and pedicellate ; or the pedicels are axillary and gene- 

 rally bracteated at the base. Calyx with a short tube, tapering 

 below, with five" rather spreading small lanceolate segments, 

 downy with appressed hairs. Corolla rotate, rich ultramarine blue, 

 with the centre white and a purple ray diverging from that up 

 the centre of each lobe, the margin five-lobed, the lobes rounded, 

 crenate; externally the corolla is silky. Stamens: fwefllaments 

 and anthers white. Ovary ovate, two-celled, four-seeded. Styles 

 white, each branched above the middle and club-shaped at the 

 apex. 



Fig. 1. Portion of a branch and leaves. 2. Outer view of a flower. 3. Inner 

 view of ditto. 4. Pistil. 5. Transverse section of an ovary, showing the four 

 seeds : — magnified. 



