time in flower. A second species, L. acutiflora, Hook., is figured 
in the ‘ Icones Plantarum,’ 6475. 
Dzscr. Shrub, much branched, two to three feet high. Leaves 
opposite, shortly petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, two to three 
inches long, young pubescent, old glabrous. Stipules subulate, 
acuminate, connate into a short tube, deciduous. | Corymb ter- 
minal, few-flowered. Bracts linear-oblong, exceeding the ovary. 
Flowers subsessile. Calyzx-tube three to four lines long: segments 
linear. Corolla white, its tube five to five and a half lines long, 
slender, pubescent : /imé an inch broad. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Calyx, with inferior ovary, with a segment of the 
calyx removed. 38. Transverse section of the ovary :—all more or less magnified. 
