African coast, whereas 7. Kirkii has been found only at 
Mombasa, N. of Zanzibar, in latitude 4° 8., where it was 
discovered by the Rev. Mr. Wakefield, who communicated 
specimens to Col. Grant in 1876, without flower, however. 
The specimen here figured was from a plant received from 
Sir John Kirk, K.C.M.G., which flowered in the Royal 
Gardens in September, 1882. 
Desor. A small shrub two to three feet high, with 
slender rigid divaricating acutely four-angled stem and 
branches. eaves one and a half to three inches long by 
half to three-quarters of an inch broad, very shortly 
petioled, lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, apiculate with the 
excurrent midrib, quite entire or with each side dilated 
into an obtuse lobe, giving a rhomboid form, three-nerved, 
rigid, dark green above, paler beneath. lowers in two- 
flowered short cymes; peduncle and pedicels short, stiff. 
Bracteoles one-third of an inch long, oblong, subacute, 
green. Calyx a very short irregularly obtusely toothed 
cup. Corolla one and a quarter inches long; tube short, 
slender, one-third the length of the campanulate limb; 
lobes spreading, but not horizontally, broadly obovate, 
retuse, violet-blue. Stamens at the top of the tube, slightly 
hairy at the very bases of the filaments, or on the corolla 
below their insertion; anthers acute. Ovary glabrous, 
stigma shortly two-lipped.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of corolla and stamens; 2, calyx ani ovary; 3, stigma :—all 
enlarged. 
