1870; it flowered in the temperate house at Kew in July 
of 1871, and is a remarkably graceful greenhouse plant, of 
easy cultivation. 8 
Descr. A small glabrous shrub; branches slender, erect, 
red-brown, as are the peduncle and the rachis of the racemes. 
Leaves two to three and a half inches long, sessile, spreading 
and recurved, narrow-linear, acute, keeled, quite entire, dark 
green and channelled above, pale beneath. Racemes opposite, 
axillary, spreading and recurved, longer (often twice as long) — 
as the leaves, densely very many flowered, tapering to the 
extremity. Flowers a quarter of an inch in diameter, shortly 
pedicelled ; bracteoles minute. Calyzx-lobes very short, oblong, 
obtuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla pale lilac; tube rather — 
longer than the lobes, and much exceeding the calyx; lobes 
spreading, dorsal largest, anterior smallest, almost orbi- 
cular, all obtuse. Stamens much exserted ; anthers red-brown. 
Style exserted ; stigma subentire —J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, calyx and style :—both magnified. 
