leaves three to four inches long, crowded, spreading, 

 oblanceolate, narrowed into a margined petiole, acute, 

 coarsely serrate, pale green, upper sessile, shorter and 

 narrower, midrib red-brown. Inflorescence a leafy, many- 

 fld. terminal raceme ; peduncles axillary, two inches long, 

 ascending, slender, one- to two-flowered, and bearing one 

 or two small, erect, narrow leaves. Flowers pendulous, 

 one and a half to two inches long. Calyx-tube hemispheric, 

 segments nearly an inch long, lanceolate, acuminate, entire 

 or serrate, green and brown. Corolla campanulate, an 

 inch broad at the mouth, violet-blue, pale towards the 

 base ; lobes much broader than long, broadly triangular, 

 slightly recurved. Filaments with broadly dilated ciliate 

 bases ; anthers narrowly linear. Ovary cylindric, glabrous ; 

 style short, three-cleft, stigmas short, revolute. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Stamens; 3, pistil -.—Both enlarged. 



