Portella of Rio de Janeiro, and flowered at Kew in 
September. 
Dusor. Perennial; one to two feet high, herbaceous, 
pale green, and rather succulent ; more or less pubescent, 
or clothed with spreading hairs ; stem branched ; branches 
terete. Leaves long-petioled, one and a half to two and 
a half inches long, broadly ovate-cordate, obtuse or sub- 
acute, coarsely sinuate-toothed, sinus at the base deep, the 
lobes almost overlapping, upper surface with spreading 
hairs, under finely pubescent or glabrate ; petiole one to 
two and a half inches long, terete, pubescent. Haceme one 
to two inches long; flowers subsecund, alternate, or the 
lower only opposite; bracts small or minute, green, 
deciduous, the lower sometimes: leafy; pedicels about 
equalling the calyx, pubescent. Calyx one-sixth of an 
inch long. Corolla two-thirds of an inch long; tube 
slender, slightly compressed, pale blue, hardly dilated 
upwards, slightly curved; upper lip small, arched, com- 
pressed, acute; lower a quarter of an inch in diameter, 
obtusely 4-lobed, dark violet, with a median broad white 
band. Fruiting calyx obovate-orbicular ; shield very concave, 
deeply cupped, much broader when ripe than represented 
in the state figured here; nucules subglobose, minutely 
et seated on a prominent columnar receptacle.— 
oD. Hi; 
Figs. 1 and 2, calyx of immature fruit seen from beneath and from above— 
enlarged. 
