perennial rootstock, six to ten inches high, very slender, 
strict or flexuous, subsimple. Radical leaves none; cauline 
numerous, one to two inches long, narrowly lanceolate, 
acuminate, sessile or narrowed into a short petiole, serrate. 
Flowers numerous, racemose towards the tips of the stems, 
secund, drooping, on slender pedicels, which are one-half 
to two-thirds of an inch long. Calyx short, obconic, 
without folds between the lobes, which are very slender, 
subulate, spreading or recurved, and quite entire or sub- 
crenate. Corolla one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, 
cylindric-campanulate, pale blue; lobes short, triangular- 
oblong, obtuse or subacute, slightly spreading. Stamens 
with pubescent filaments dilated at the base; anthers linear. 
Style slender ; stigma cylindric.—J. D. H. 
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Fig. 1, Flower cut open vertically; 2, front, and 3, back view of stamens; 
4, stigma ; 5, transverse section of ovary ; 6, ovules :—all enlarged. 
