Descr. A tall stout much-branched herb, clothed every- 
where with a glandular pubescence, which varies much in 
quantity. Branches obscurely quadrangular, divaricating, 
tumid at the nodes. Leaves, 3-4 inches long, opposite, 
petioled, ovate, orbicular-ovate, or ovate-cordate, acute or 
acuminate, rarely obtuse, sometimes 2-lobed at the base, 
rather thick, quite entire, nerves spreading ; petiole stout. 
Flowers in terminal panicles with opposite branches, four to 
seven together, in the green cup-shaped or bell-shaped 
peduncled involucre, which is about 1 inch long, and has 
4 to 5 short broad acute or obtuse erect lobes. Perianth 
bright purple; tube 2 inches long, funnel-shaped ; limb flat, 
5-lobed, lobes rounded notched at the tip. Stamens 5-6, 
hardly exserted ; anthers small, yellow. Style very long and 
slender ; stigma ‘capitate. —J. D. H. , 
Fig. 1, Ovary and style of the natural size. 
