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from three quarters of an inch to an inch and three quarters 

 breadth, ovate-lanceolate, and cordate or semi-cordate at base; 

 dentated, and somewhat wrinkled. Branch leaves smaller ; ovate- 

 lanceolate, ovate, and often quite lanceolate, and dentate-serrate. 

 All the leaves are of a pale or celandine-green beneath, and of a 

 grass-green hue above, occasionally tinged on their upper disk, 

 with reddish-purple. Racemes long, leafy, proceeding laterally 

 from the stem — hence the specific name of the plant. The floral 

 leaves are attached by pairs to each pair of flowers, and diminish 

 gradually in size as they approach the apex of the racemes. They 

 are ovate, acute, sub-sessile, or situated on very short petioles. 

 Each floral leaf of the pair, is attached by a common origin to the 

 peduncle of the calix as represented in fig. 2. of the plate. Flowers 

 small, numerous, arranged in pairs along the racemes. Peduncles 

 an eighth of an inch long. Calix scutellate as in the whole genus. 

 Corolla monopetalous, tubular, from a quarter to three-eighths of an 

 inch long, and one-eighth of an inch or little more,in diameter; cam- 

 panula-purple, occasionally lighter or nearly bluish-white beneath. 

 Seeds numerous, small, oval, verrucose, yellowish. Though the flow- 

 ers of this plant are generally borne on racemes, they are some- 

 times arranged in pairs from the axills of the leaves, on the branches. 

 In this case, the floriferous ramuli must be considered as racemous 

 branches. The large size of the leaves belongs to plants which 

 have grown in the shade, and, thus situated, they become very thin 



