berd-shaped, very acute, downy all over, the two lateral 
lobes often again divided: the upper leaves among the pa- 
nicles are small and ovate or lanceolate. Panicle large, 
spreading, pedunculate, arising from the axils of the upper 
leaves. Peduncles and branches purplish-brown, downy. 
Calyx inflated ; with five connivent lobes, of a yellow-green 
colour, the segments purple, and there is a band at the 
bottom of the calyx of the same colour: the whole gla- 
brous, but viscid. Corolla white or greenish-white : the 
tube exceedingly long and slender, curved, downy with 
glandular hairs ; Limb of five spreading, waved or tortuous 
segments. Ftlaments and style exserted, purple. Anthers 
purple-black, as is the pollen. 
Fig. 1. Section of the Calyx, showing the Germen. 
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