Leaves all alternate, shortly petioled, one to three inches 
long, ovate, ovate-cordate or oblong, obtuse or acute, quite 
entire, deep green above, pale, and sometimes pubescent 
beneath; stipules very small, subulate, Flowers minute, 
white or pale blue, on very slender pedicels, which are — 
collected in globose, sessilé or peduncled heads, which 
again are disposed in axillary and terminal panicled, 
globose or cylindric thyrsi, two to four inches long, 
Sepals triangular-ovate, incurved. Petals twice as long, 
their claw as long as the boat-shaped limb. Anthers red« 
_ purple. Capsule nearly globose, quite smooth.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flowers ; 2, petal ; 3, ovary :—All enlarged. 
