2-bracteate below the middle; bracts small, linear. Caly. 
narrow tubular, $ in. long, sparingly puberulous, obscurely 
angled but not winged, deeply 5-lobed; lobes subequal, 
erect, linear-lanceolate, about 5 lin. long. Corolla dark- 
purple, 14 in. long ; tube narrowly funnel-shaped, incurved, 
much exceeding the calyx, the lower half narrow cylindric, 
1 lin. wide, the upper half gradually expanding, the throat 
5 lin. across; limb spreading, about 1 in. wide, subequally 
4-lobed, the lobes faintly crenulate with the uppermost 
sometimes emarginate. Stamens didynamous, the longer 
pair slightly exserted, their filaments shortly denticulate 
some distance above the base, the shorter pair hardly 
exserted ; anthers cohering in pairs. Style shortly exserted. 
Capsule subellipsoid, glabrous, rather shorter than the 
calyx. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla-tube, laid open, showing the stamens; 3 and 
4, anthers; 5, ovary and disk; 6, fruit; 7, seeds :—all enlarged except 6, which 
is of natural size. 
