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one thousand to tlii-eo tlious.ind feet. The stem is erro4J 

 neously described as procumbent by Bcntham. 



Vescr. — Suffruticose, sparsely hairy on the stem and 

 leaves, rather succulent ; branches about a foot long, 

 horizontally spreading. Leaves two to three inches long, 

 broadly ovate or rhombic, coarsely cremate, laxly hairy on 

 both surfaces, base cuneate or truncate; floral small. 

 liacemes erect, simple, rhachis stout, obtusely four-angled ; 

 whorls two- to four-flowered; pedicels a fourth to a third 

 of an inch long, red-brown. Calyx minute, broadly cam- 

 panulate, two-lipped, five-toothed ; upper tooth broadly 

 ovate, lateral and two lower very small, ovate, acute. 

 Corolla large, pale blue ; tube two-thirds of an inch long, 

 inflated, compressed, gibbous at the base.; upper lip erect, 

 more than half an inch broad, semicircular, with a trun- 

 cate, sub-hastate base, notched at the top ; side lobes very 

 narrow ; lower lip small, oblong, obtuse, concave, deflexed. 

 Filaments free, glabrous ; anthers small, with ovoid, 

 divaricate cells. — /. D. H. 



Tig. 1, cal^fx and style; 2, interior of corolla-tube and stj^mens; 3 and 

 4, anther^ ; 5, disk and ovaries •.—all enlarged. 



