Descr.—A nearly glabrous shrub, eight to ten feet high. 
Leaves not fully developed till flowering time, rhomboidal- 
ovate or orbicular, two to three and a half inches in dia-_ 
meter, cuspidately acute or acuminate, rather coriaceous, ; 
green, with often reddish margins, base rounded or openly — 
cordate, russet red on maturing; petiole one half to one — 
inch long. flowers in a shortly peduncled, broadly oblong 
or globose, dense-flowered thyrsus, very shortly pedicelled, - 
branches, pedicels, and calyces puberulous. Calyx one-— 
tenth of an inch long, cleft nearly to the middle into four | 
unequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute lobes. Corolla pale lilac, — 
tube about half an inch long, glabrous or slightly 
glandular ; limb two-thirds of an inch broad; lobes flat — 
or slightly concave, orbicular or broadly elliptic. Fruit | 
unknown.—J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, calyx, style, and stigma; 2, section of corolla; 3, pistil:—all en- 
larged. ean | 
