broadly-ovate or obcuneate, sessile, white, sinuate, toothed 
sepals, faintly vemed with red-purple. Perfect flowers small, — 
scattered, glabrous. Petals and stamens blue. Ovary with 
three robust, recurved sty/es, which are free to the base. 
Fig. 1. Imperfect flower, from which the sepals have been cut away. 2. Per- 
fect flower. 3. Calyx and pistil :—magnijfied. 
