elongate linear- or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, one- 
sixth to nearly one inch in diameter, concave, very coriaceous, 
bright green, midrib thick with sometimes a lateral very 
obscure nerve on each side; cauline leaves numerous, nar- 
rowly linear, one-half to two inches long. Flowering stems 
ascending from the crown below the leaves, sometimes pros- 
trate for half their length, four to eight inches long, stout 
or slender, one to four flowered. Flowers erect or inclined, 
pedicelled, one and a half inches long. Calyz-tube between 
funnel- and bell-shaped, about one-third the length of the 
corolla-tube ; lobes as long as the tube, narrow linear, 
remote at the base. Corolla-tube narrowly campanulate ; 
limb one and a half inches in diameter; lobes five, broadly 
ovate, acute or acuminate, azure-blue, sprinkled towards the 
throat with white; folds between the lobes very variable, 
membranous, quadrate and toothed or cut into subulate 
processes, or almost entire. Filaments stout; anthers small. 
Ovary pedicelled, spindle-shaped, contracted into a short 
style with short oblong finally spreading stigmas. Ovules 
fusiform, produced at the apex.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, vertical section of flower; 2, summit of ovary, style, and stigmas; 3, 
transverse section of ovary ; 4, ovules :—figs. 2-4 enlarged. 
