Descr. Glabrous. Rootstock long, perpendicular, its summit 
clothed with the withered bases of the petioles. Radical leaves 
long-petioled ; blade one to two inches long, elliptic-ovate 
or oblong, acute obtuse or mucronate, narrowed into a 
petiole one to three inches long, above marked with faint 
distant pustules, beneath quite smooth; nerves very obscure ; - 
cauline smaller, sessile. Mowering-branches four to eight 
Inches long, trailing, remotely leafy; cymes 6-8-flowered, 
flowers distant; pedicels half to one and a half inches 
long, the lower subtended by leafy bracts, spreading, re- 
curved in fruit. Calyz campanulate, with five oblong- 
ovate acute spreading lobes. Corolla one half to one inch in 
diameter, quite rotate, pale pink-purple at first, then azure ; 
tube very short, inflated ; limb flat, five-lobed to the middle; 
lobes rounded; mouth nearly closed by five protuberances 
opposite the segments. Stamens included, filaments very 
short, subulate; anthers ovoid. Nucules trigonous, with 
narrow margins.—/, D. H. ; 
Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, flower with the corolla removed :—magnified. 
