the base, sparingly branched, glabrous; branches obtusely 
4-angled. Leaves one to three inches long, shortly petioled, 
ovate, broadly-ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acumi- 
nate, with an obtuse tip, deep green, minutely hairy on both 
surfaces, upper usually very rounded at the base. Aacemes 
solitary or two together, rarely three, from the tips of the 
branches, two to four inches long, strict, erect. Flowers 
secund ; pedicels very short, 3-bracteate at the base; bracts 
minute, subulate. Ca/ya small, one-quarter of an inch long, 
somewhat pubescent ; segments subulate-lanceolate, suberect. 
Corolla three-quarters to one inch long; tube half an inch, 
rather slender, inflated at the base within the calyx, whitish ; 
throat as long as the tube, subcampanulate, violet-purple, 
striped with white; segments five, nearly equal, ovate, obtuse, 
violet-purple, with a broad white limb, the lower segments 
rather larger and deeper coloured. Anthers small, included. 
rer glandular ; style slender, stigma minutely bifid. — 
ee B 
Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, stamens; 3, calyx and pistil; 4, ovary 
and disk ; 5, vertical section of do.—all magnified. 
