in the native specimens, in which, according to Boissier, 
the corolla is three times as long as the calyx. 
Descr.—A slender, much-branched annual, branches 
opposite, loosely subifariously pubescent. Leaves one half 
to three-fourths of an inch long, shortly petioled, broadly 
ovate, obtuse, crenate-toothed, glabrous above, puberulous 
beneath ; floral bracteiform, smaller, narrower, two to 
three-lobed, uppermost entire. Pedicels half to one inch 
long, very slender, fruiting spreading, tips recurved. 
Calyx one-third to half an inch long, pubescent, divided to 
the base into two very unequal elliptic pairs of segments. 
Corolla three-fourths of an inch in diameter ; lobes bright 
blue, white at the base, three upper orbicular-ovate, lower 
rather longer, spathulately obovate. Filaments shorter 
than the corolla-lobes. Capsule sub-orbicular, retusely 
truncate. Seeds concavo-convex.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, calyx; 2, corolla and stamens; 3, ovary; 4, capsule :—AJ enlarged. 
