1890, having been raised from Mr. Watson's seeds in 

 1887. 



Desce. Rootstoch tuberous, woody. Stems very many, 

 one to two feet long, slender, branched above, leafy below, 

 decumbent and ascending, glabrous or sparingly setose. 

 Leaves spreading, sessile, undulate, one to two inches long, 

 linear-oblong, acute, base semi-amplexicaul, dark green with 

 a ciliate cartilaginous margin, and a few bristles on the 

 surface. Flower on long slender curved terminal branches, 

 very variable ; size one-half to one inch long, violet blue. 

 Calyw obconical, striate, lobes subulate-lanceolate, green, 

 glabrous or ciliate towards the base. Corolla narrowly 

 campanulate, tube about twice as long as the calyx-lobes ; 

 lobes ovate, acuminate. Filaments filiform above, base 

 greatly and suddenly dilated into a large obovate or obcor- 

 date lamina with recurved ciliate margins ; anthers linear- 

 oblong. Style hardly longer than the stamens; stigma 

 stout, recurved. Capsule obconic, a fourth to one-half an 

 inch long, ten-nerved. — /. D. E. 



Fig. 1, Top of ovary, with stamens and style ; 2, stamen -.—both enlarged. 



