brown, the young terete and green, spotted with brown. Leaves 
opposite, ovate, acute, serrated, reticulate, cuneate and entire at 
the base and there tapering into a rather short thick footstalk. 
Cyme or compound wmbe/ terminal, flat. Perfect flowers blue, 
tetra- or pentamerous. Styles three. Sterile Z/ossoms about five, 
sometimes with abortive stamens, sometimes abortive pistils, and 
bearing three to five large petaloid, rhomboidal sepa/s, more or 
less toothed or angled, blue at the base, the rest white. 
Fig. 1. Bud. 2. Expanded flower :—magnified. 
