Descr. — A slender shrub, three to four feet high, erect, 

 with erect fastigiate densely leafy purplish branches and 

 branchlets ; branches slender, and leaves perfectly glabrous. 

 Leaves one-third to one inch long, subsessile, spreading, 

 elliptic, subacute, quite entire, coriaceous, keeled, deep 

 green, and shining above, pale beneath, midrib obscure. 

 Flower white, in very short sessile spikes that are crowded 

 together, forming short terminal panicles at the ends of 

 the branches, opposite, quite sessile ; bracts as long as the 

 calyx, ovate, most minutely puberulous. Calyx % in. long, 

 oblong, cylindric, base rounded ; segments linear- oblong, 

 obtuse, erect, margins ciliolate. Corolla-tube twice as long 

 as the calyx ; lobes 4 (rarely 3) spreading ; three dorsal, 

 oblong, obtuse, the anticous very narrowly linear. Fila- 

 ments long. Anthers oblong, blue. Ovary quite glabrous. 

 —J. D. H. 



Fig- 1, Portion of spike with bracts and flowers ; 2, calyx and style ; 3 and 

 4, anthers ; 5, ovary and disk ; 6, fruiting branchlet ; 7, fruit with calyx : — 

 All but f . 6 enlarged. 



