Samples of the present species, brought by Sir George — 
Staunton from the Brazils, are preserved in the Banksian 
and Lambertian Herbariums. 
A tall slender shrub covered with a short bristly close- — 
pressed fur: branches 4-cornered. Leaves ovately lanceo- 
late, petioled, entire, furred on both sides, 3-5 inches long, 
2.2 broad, green above, greyish underneath. Panicles 
terminal, loosely many-flowered, decussately branched. 
Flowers violet; petals cuneately obovate, about an inch 
long, finely and shortly ciliate. Stamens 10, the length of — 
the petals: filaments purple, thinly sprinkled with very 
minute capitate hairs: anthers violet, declining and in- 
bowed, about equal to the filaments, subulately elongated. 
Germen enclosed within the tube of the calyx, and nearly 
as short again as that. Fruit a dry capsule. Don MSS. 
