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the corolla, and the scale at the base of the stamens. As a border 
plant, it is a great acquisition. 
Dezscr. Annual, with branched, diffuse, flexuose, glanduloso- 
pubescent, rounded, green stems. Leaves alternate, nearly del- 
toid, or ovato-deltoid, coarsely and doubly serrated, pubescenti- 
hirsute, penninerved, on long pubescenti-glandulose petioles, ge- 
nerally longer than the leaves. Flowers large, in terminal, many- 
flowered, secund, circinate racemes. Calyx deeply cut to the 
base, into five, linear, very patent, glandulose segments. Corolla 
rich blue, with an ample campanulate dude, slightly inflated be- 
low; the Zimd equal, or nearly so, of five, rounded, spreading 
lobes. Stamens five. Filaments exserted, arising each from the 
back of a scale at the base of the corolla, slightly hairy; scale 
oblong, retuse, hairy at the apex. Anthers oblong. Ovary 
seated on a glandular disc. Style as long as the filaments, and 
hairy like them, forked at the apex. Stigmas obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Stamen and scale. 2. Pistil. 3. Transverse section of an ovary :— 
magnified. 
