tips, sparingly branched, slender, leafy, red. Leaves half 
an inch long, ovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, 
acuminate or obtuse, deep green with a pale midrib, margin 
narrowly cartilaginous, quite smooth. lowers solitary and 
sessile at the ends of the branches, an inch long. Calyx-tube 
narrowly campanulate; lobes five, similar to the leaves, 
half as long as the corolla, spreading stellately. Corolla- 
tube subcylindric, a little inflated, whitish striped with blue ; 
lobes five, small, triangular-ovate, acute, intensely blue,. 
much longer than the small entire obtuse folds. Stamens 
inserted about the middle of the tube; anthers free. Ovary 
fusiform, stipitate, stigmas revolute. Capsule fusiform, 
enclosed in the corolla-tube, and as long as it is. Seeds 
with a lamellate rugose testa, not winged.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower vertically cut open, with two uppermost leaves of the branch 
2, stamen ; 3, lip of ovary and stigmas ; 4, ovules :—all enlarged. 
