tula, sessile, and these crowded about the extremities of the short 
branches, so copious as to conceal a great part of the foliage. 
Pedicels reddish, hairy, and having small, scale-like, reddish, 
deciduous éracts at the base. Calyx deeply cut into five, ovate, 
acute, inflexed segments, which meet at the style with their points 
and conceal the ovary. Petals brilliant blue, on long filiform 
claws, spreading, the /amina cucullate ; all standing out from the 
clefts between the closed calycine segments. Stamens opposite 
the petals, inserted at their base, as long as the petals, erect, 
patent. Filaments blue ; anthers oval, blue, pollen yellow. Ovary 
trigonous, sunk in a fleshy broad ring or disc. Style columnar, 
much shorter than the stamens and pistils. Stigmas three, mode- 
rately spreading. 
Fig. 1. Leaf and stipules, upper side. 2. The same, under side. 3. Flower. 
4. Pistil and annular disc :—magnified, % 
