obtuse, entire or obscurely crenulate, with a rigid black 
deciduous bristle on the margin, or in each crenature, 
coriaceous, dark green shining above, with impressed 
nerves, pale beneath, with prominent nerves. lowers very 
shortly pedicelled, solitary, axillary, nodding, pink, about 
as long as the leaves; pedicel bracteolate. Sepals ovate. 
Corolla globosely campanulate, mouth contracted, with 
five revolute teeth. Filaments globose, puberulous, anther- 
cells sub-aristately acuminate, connective with a_ bifid 
dorsal spur. Berry turbinate, 5-lobed, blue.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower with pedicel and bracteoles; 3 and 4, stamens; 
lg ees disk; 6, transverse section of ovary :—A/l/ enlarged ; 7, fruit of 
. size, 
