of the shoots, are very densely clustered, and dark brown, 
so as to give the ends of the branches a sooty appearance. 
Leaves opposite, spreading on long, pale, whitish-green, 
round stalks, with which they are jointed ; oblong, cordate 
at base, -a little pointed, but blunt at end, flat, quite smooth, 
dark green, with a very distinct pale green rib; paler 
green, and firmly netted beneath, with a very few scat- 
tered scales, which are chiefly on the midrib. Lowers 
nearly solitary, cernuous, with a very scaly stalk. Calyx 
long, turbinate, dotted like the stalk with minute brown 
scales, bursting irregularly at the end. Corolla two inches 
long, one inch and a half across the limb, imfundibuliform, 
with a yellowish tube, a little curved, and on the under 
side concave, a hairy prominent palate, and a very delicate 
crumpled, whitish lilac, oblique limb; upper lip 2-lobed, — 
lower 3-parted larger; lobes all crenate and ciliate, the — 
lower with three faint lilac lines along the axis of each. — 
Stamens much shorter than tube, united towards its base. 
Rudiment subulate, hairy at base. Filaments smooth. 
Anthers with smooth, divaricating lobes. 
J. L. 
