Leaves two to four inches long, very shortly petioled, dark 
green, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, deeply acutely 
serrate ; nerves strong and puberulous beneath. Racemes 
terminal and on lateral branches, six inches to nearly a foot 
long, subsessile or peduncled, strict, erect, very dense- 
flowered ; rachis pubescent. Bracts linear-lanceolate. Pe- 
dicels about as long as the calyx. Sepals ovate-oblong or 
linear, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla one-third of an inch in 
diameter, bright amethystine blue; tube very short; seg- 
ments spreading, rounded, concave, the posticous rather the 
largest. Filaments slender, exceeding the corolla-segment. 
Style filiform; stigma capitate. Cupsule rather longer than 
the sepals, turgid, two-lobed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Side, and 2, front view of the flower :—enlarged. 
