almost elliptic, rounded at both ends, dark dull-green and 
puberulous or glabrous and opaque above, paler beneath and 
more or less pubescent or tomentose; midrib stout, nerves 
obscure ; petiole one-tenth to one-eighth of an inch long, 
tomentose. Peduneles axillary, solitary or in pairs (from 
opposite axils), very short, rarely one-sixth of an inch long, 
decurved, two-flowered, densely tomentose; bracts small, 
linear-oblong, spreading and recurved, green; bracteoles 
united into a glabrous cup which embraces the bases of the 
ovaries. Flowers in pairs, the ovaries glabrous, united or 
free. Calyz-tube hardly produced, with five triangular teeth. 
Corolla two-thirds of an inch long, tube narrowly funnel- 
shaped, not gibbous at the base, slightly hairy, white ; limb 
of five subequal short rounded spreading lobes, white tinged 
with pink. Stamens included. Ovary two- to three-celled. 
Style glabrous, stigma capitate. Berries the size of a small 
pea, globose, blue-black, many-seeded.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, flowers, bracts, and peduncles; 2, corolla laid open; 3, bracteoles and 
ovaries ; 4, stamens; 5, style and stigma; 6, fruit :—all enlarged. 
