bbed, dark green above, beneath paler and downy; the margin 
always recurved (in cultivated as well as native specimens), and 
bearing numerous, conspicuous, spreading teeth, tipped with a 
gland: ribs and veins sunk above, prominent beneath. There 
are two, broad, subulate, scale-like stipules, one on each side the 
base of the petiole, equal in length with it. Peduncles solitary, 
rather longer than the leaves, subterminal, situated in the axils 
of the upper leaves, terminated by a capitate raceme of dark blue, 
compact flowers. Pedicels hairy. Calya, with its five, deep, 
ovate segments, incurved over the germen. Petals spreading 
horizontally from between the sinuses of the calycine segments, 
cucullate, tapering below into a long slender claw. Ovary three- 
lobed, sunk in a slightly lobed fleshy aznulus or disc: style 
thick, longer than the calyx-segments : stigmas three, moderately 
reading. : | 
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‘Fig. 1. Flower and pedicel. 2. Pistil and fleshy annulus. 3. Leaf and sti- 
iles :—magnified. : 
