species. It flowers with us in July and August. Its nearest 
affinity is with C. peregrina (Bot. Mag. t. 1257), from which it 
differs essentially in its perennial root, angular, hispid stem, in 
the different form and hairiness of the leaves, and in the absence 
_ of the dark, almost black ring in the inner base of the corolla. 
Dzscr. Root perennial. Stem annual, erect, two to three feet 
high, branching only at the base (hence the plant takes a pyra- 
midal figure), angular, succulent, the angles winged and hispid. 
Leaves oblong or broad, lanceolate, alternate, spreading, reticu- 
lately veined, unequally crenato-serrated and hairy, or hispid, 
chiefly on the veins beneath, sessile, on the radical ones only 
tapering into a winged, short petiole. F/owers solitary, or three 
or four from the axils of leaves, which gradually become smaller 
and bracteiform upwards. Peduncles short, single-flowered, his- 
pid.  Calyx-tube hemispherical, angled, hispid: md of five 
_ spreading, lanceolate-subulate, sometimes serrated, ciliated seg- 
‘ments, shorter than the tube of the corolla. Corolla large, 
handsome, glabrous, purple-blue, pale at the base within: tube 
short, broad, campanulate, spreadmg at the mouth: /imé of five 
broad-ovate, rather acute, spreading lobes. Filaments with a 
very broad, dilated base, completely covermg the top of the 
ovary: anthers linear. Style short: stigmas three, large, linear- 
oblong, spreading. — 
Fig. 1. Pistil and stamens :—magnified. 
