of curious annuals in the borders of Messrs. Colville’s nur- 
sery in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
Annual; trailing and occasionally in some degree twin- 
ing, from a foot to about a foot and half long, branching, 
distantly leaved, branches round, with rather a woolly fur. 
Leaves scattered, inclining one way, subcordately ovate, 
about an inch and a half long, and about 3 of an inch 
over at the broadest part, nerved, slightly furred: petiole 
thrice shorter than the blade or more. Peduncles solj- 
tary, axillary, one-flowered, filiform, slender, twice as 
long as the petiole, furred, oppositely bibracteate just 
below the calyx; bractes leafy elongatedly lanceolate, pu- 
bescent, spreading, twice longer than the calyx. Calyx 
hairily. furred; leaflets elliptically lanceolate, taper-pointed, 
fringed, permanent, two inner ones nearly twice smaller 
| than the others, three outer ones nearly of one size, little 
i shorter than the corolla. Corolla the smallest of any in the 
Ht genus, azure blue; tube short, pale, limb turbinately rotate. 
Ht Capsule globular, smooth, with a small point at the top, 
i two-celled, four-seeded. : 
