into a short leafy corymb that does not elongate in fruit, 
overtopped by the leaves, two-thirds of an inch in diameter ; 
pedicels almost equalling the calyx, angular, thickened at 
the top. Calyx velvety, short; segments lanceolate, acute, 
lengthening a little in fruit. Corol/a deep-blue, with a white 
eye, and white or pale purplish raised pubescent bands down 
the centre of each segment; tube short ; lobes broadly ovate, 
mouth pubescent, throat with five broad pubescent lines. 
Stamens small, inserted in the lower part of the tube ; anthers 
elliptic, apiculate. Ovary depressed, 4-lobed. Style very 
short; stigma 4-lobed, included. Ripe fruit of yellowish 
shining subglobose nuts, acuminate, irregularly covered with 
little pits.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, ovary :—all magnified. 
