Dzscr. A ramous shrub, with terete, glabrous, green, straight 
branches, and bright-green, small, glossy leaves of very uniform 
size. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate-cuneate, rounded at the 
apex, margin rather distantly toothed, each tooth terminated by 
a deciduous gland. Heads of flowers one to three inches long, 
forming when in bud broadly ovoid cones at the ends of the 
branchlets, covered with imbricating, silky scales. Rachis stout, 
villous. Peduncles slender. Calyzx-lobes erect or incurved, tri- 
angular. Petals with rather long claws, and very broadly obo- 
vate, deeply cucullate lamine, of a bright deep-blue colour, as 
are the pedicels, calyx, and stamens. Ovary depressed, three- 
lobed, lobes tumid at the apex. 
Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Back of leaf. 3. Portion of back of leaf. 4. Flower. 
5. Dise and ovary :—magnified, 
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