very uniform in size and shape, none radical in the flowering 

 state of the plant, all on slender petioles, an inch to an inch 

 and a half long, two-thirds to three-quarters of an inch 

 broad, broadly ovate-cordate, coarsely crenate-dentate, or al- 

 most lobulate, usually covered thickly with a hoary pubes- 

 cence, sometimes nearly glabrous. Flowers pedicellate, an 

 inch to an inch and a quarter in diameter, pale, but very 

 bright blue, with orange-yellow pollen in the style. Calyx- 

 lobes narrow, linear-oblong, entire or with one or two teeth, 

 spreading, about half as long as the corolla. Corolla broadly 

 campanulate, lobed almost to the middle, lobes spreading. 

 Style slender, exserted ; stigmas three. — J. I). H. 



Fig. 1. Flower with corolla removed -.—marfnified. 



