hairy or hispid, obtuse or subacute, quite entire, midrib — 
distinct; there are often below the ordinary leaves a few 
oboyate spathulate ones, which are the first formed on the 
shoots; cauline leaves one or two, like the lower but more 
erect. Flowering-stem rather stout, hispid or glabrescent. 
Flower inclined or nodding, nearly an inch and a half long, 
and as broad across the mouth. Calyzx-lobes ovate- or 
linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading and recurved, green, 
hispid, half as long as the corolla; sinuses with a reflexed 
broadly ovate hispid appendage. Corolla bright violet-blue, 
mouth open, tube hardly angled; lobes triangular ovate, 
recurved, about one-third the length of the tube, slightly 
bearded at the tips. Stamens with a very short two-lobed 
pubescent filament, which is broader than long; anther 
slender. Ovary three-celled; style short, slender, stigmas 
linear revolute.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower, of the natural size; 2, stamens ; 3, ovary, style, 
and stigma; 4, stigmas; 5, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
