Stem and branches stout, terete, green, sparingly covered with 
_ small asperities. Leaves deep dull-green, the upper of a dull 
pale-purple beneath, five to seven inches long, by one and three 
quarters to two inches broad, rather thick in texture, lanceolate, 
acuminate, obscurely sinuate, serrate, with numerous. stout arch- 
ing veins, glabrous, or with a few short scattered transparent 
hairs, which also appear on the inflorescence and calyx. Flowers 
three to five together, fully three inches long, minutely pubes- 
cent. Calyx red-purple, three-quarters of an inch long, five- 
cleft nearly to the base, with two subulate bracts of equal length 
with itself. Corolla pale rose-purple, abruptly bent, almost 
geniculate where the slender tube suddenly enlarges; limb of 
five, short, equal, white, patent or recurved, bilobed divisions. - 
Stamens five, ncluded. Ovary with about twelve ovules. J.D. H. 
Fig. 1.’ Corolla, laid open. 2. Stamens. 3. Calyx and pistil. 4. Ovary. 5. 
Transverse, and 6, vertical section of ovary. 7. Ovule:—all magnified. 
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