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PS. between the town and Fonte d’Area and ascent of Pico 
Debaixo ; GD. and SD. at top. Xov.-June, but chiefly Apr., 
May. — Merely a large luxuriant form or state of a or /3. Root 
long thin simple ann. Primary st. erect, 2 or 3 in. high, throw- 
ing out brachiately from the axils of the 1. long trailing pros- 
trate or decumbent branches which are again remotely or 
sparingly branched chiefly towards their base, the ends ascend- 
ing ; all sharply and inequilaterally 4-angular, with the 2 oppo- 
site sides alternately between each pair of 1. broader and 
narrower, and the branches always springing from the bottom 
of the narrow grooved sides or top of the broad flat pair of the 
internode below. Hence the branches are decussately com- 
pressed, with alternately opposite broad flat and narrow grooved 
sides, the latter with prominent sharp edges. L. in pairs, de- 
cussate, broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, 6-8 or 9 lines long, 4-6 
broad, waved and subauriculate or subcordate at the base and 
perfectly sessile, their base occupying the whole breadth of the 
broad flat sides of the branches, but not semiamplexicaul, pale 
gr. and quite smooth like the st., dotted beneath with pale 
purple, strongly 3-nerved, quite entire but through the lens 
minutely crystallino-erosulate. Pedic. solitary filiform or ca- 
pillary, as long as or longer than the 1., deflexed in fr. Sep. 
very narrow lanceolate finely acuminate shorter than the cor., 
their edges w. pellucid membranous either entire or very mi- 
nutely and irregularly serrulate ; keel strong pellucid and di- 
stinctly crystallino-serrulate or crenulate. FI. conspicuous, 
rather larger than in a, sometimes very much so, not closing 
after being gathered, but becoming strongly deflexed, cor. of a 
very rich deep bl., rather paler outside, with a ring of bright 
deep rose-purple inside at the throat or base of pet. ; the latter 
broadly obovate or roundish subtruncate or obtuse, laterally 
close together or subimbricate, their edges finely erosulo-den- 
ticulate and fringed with numerous very short minute capitate 
pale purple glands, falling unitedly. Fil. often connivent in 
the middle above the ov. like an hour-glass, densely villous w. 
below, bright red-purple upwards, their hairs purple thickened 
upwards or subcapitate. Anth. bright chrome-y. Ov. rather 
long subcapitate, style smooth, the latter bright rose-purple ; 
stigma simple capitate greenish or y. Caps, smooth globose 
pale brown shorter than the sep., crowned by the persistent 
style. Seeds dark brown sharply 3-4-angular, minutely gra- 
nulato-rugose exactly as in a or (3. 
When starved or drawn up or otherwise depauperated, or even 
when far advanced in fl., passing completely into /3. 
A. MoneUi BM. t. 319 seems to differ only in the more nar- 
rowly obovate remote or distinct (not laterally imbricated) pet., 
