flowers, green and subulate-lanceolate from a broad red- 
brown ovate base, quite entire, or slightly toothed, the outer _ 
recurved, all shorter than the flowers. /Jowers sessile, about 
one inch long, erect. Calyx-cube hairy, conical, red brown ; 
lobes green, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, pu- 
bescent, and ciliate, with a small tooth in each sinus. 
Corolla violet blue, rather narrowly campanulate; tube 
5-angled; lobes spreading and recurved, ovate, acute. 
Filaments very broad, ciliate; anthers twisted after the 
pollen has escaped. Stigma (or pollen-collecting portion of 
the style) elongate, cylindric ; lobes 2, short, spreading.— 
Ue De i. 
Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower with the corolla removed, magnified. 
