raised from seed sent by the late Mr. Jamieson, of 
Ootacamund, in 1887, and flowered for the first and last 
time in November, 1900. It has hence, according to Col. 
Beddome’s estimate, taken twice as long a period to 
mature at Kew as it would have done had it grown in the 
Nilghiri Hills. 
Deser,—An erect shrub, covered with a matted fulvous 
tomentum. Branches four-angled. Leaves three to seven 
inches long, ovate or elliptic, acute or acuminate, at length 
glabrous on the upper surface; nerves about twelve 
pairs, arched, close-set; petiole stout. Spikes panicled 
towards the ends of the branches, oblong, few-flowered ; 
bracts elliptic, obtuse; bracteoles linear-oblong. Calyz 
half an inch long, segments unequal, linear-lanceolate, 
erect. Corolla about three-quarters of an inch long, 
gibbously ventricose, contracted below into a short curved 
tube; lobes subequal, spreading, pale blue. Stamens 2, 
filaments sparsely hairy; anthers included. Ovary and 
style glabrous ; stigma linear, decurved. 
Fig. 1, calyx with style and stigma; 2, corolla laid open showing stamens ; 
3 and 4, anthers; 5, disk and ovary :—all enlaryed. 
