It is a neat, rather handsome species when in flower. 

 It is too tender to be left all winter without protection, but 

 grows freely out of doors in the summer, flowering in July 

 and August. Propagated by cuttings. 



A shrub with divaricate, nearly taper, branches, which, 

 when young, are hoary and downy. Leaves small, oblong 

 or oblong-linear, obtuse, crenated, rugose, tapering at the 

 base to a short petiole ; the floral ones shorter than the 

 calyx. Flowers somewhat secund, opposite, on short pe- 

 dicels. Calyx campanulate, smooth, veiny, with nearly 

 equal acute teeth. Corolla campanulate, scarcely twice 

 as long as the calyx, smooth, pale blue, the throat very 

 much inflated, the lobes of the limb short, nearly erect, 

 the upper lip bifid, the lower trifid, with the middle lobe 

 emarginate. 



J. L. 



