stalks, ovate, acute, crenato-seiTate, often purple beneath, above rich 
velvety green, marked with white lines on the costa and pinnated 
nerves. Internodes elongated, except at the summit, where the 
leaves are more crowded. Peduncles crowded from the axils of 
the upper leaves, forming a sort of umbel, simple, single-flow ered, 
hispid. Calyx hispid; the tube short, adnate w ith the ovary : 
the segments broad, rounded. Corolla rotate or nearly so; tube 
very short; limb of five concave, nearly regular, rounded, cre- 
nated lobes, white. Stamens short, four, with the rudiment of a 
fifth. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx, laid open to show the ovary, style, and stigma. 
3. OoroUa, laid open to show the stamens. 4, Ovary, cut through transversely 
to display the placentae and ovules ;— iruigmjied. 
