Descr. Apparently a small shrub, copiously branched, with 

 opposite or subverticillate, slender, tuberculated branches. 

 Leaves copious, half to three-quarters of an inch long, elliptical 

 or subobovate, very shortly petiolate, entire, obtuse, or more 

 generally emarginate at the apex. Flowers very numerous, pure 

 white, almost concealing the foliage by their number, axillary, 

 solitary, scarcely peduncled (almost sessile). . Calyx small, 

 sparsely piloso-hispid on the subturbinate tube ; limb of five 

 erect, linear-subulate segments. Corolla with a very long, nar- 

 row, slightly curved, almost filiform tube, slightly dilated up- 

 wards ; limb an inch across, oblique, scarcely two-lipped, the 

 five segments ovate, very patent. Anthers small, purple, scarcely 

 exserted. Stigma biglobose. 



Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil, — magnified. 2. Ovary, — magnified. 



