petioled, 1-2 inches long, and at the broadest part twice as 
narrow as long, sémewhat wrinkled, of a lively green; 
owing to the petiole being shorter than the sinus at their 
base, they have the appearance of stemclaspers. Flowers 
white, subsessile: peduncles solitary, axillary, very short, 
3-4-flowered; pedicles one-flowered very short: bractes close- 
pressed, long-pointed, a great deal shorter than the calyx. 
Calyx herbaceous, a third shorter than the corolla, with 
linearly lanceolate hairily ciliated seements. Corolla rotate, 
scarcely exceeding one fourth of an inch in diameter, hairy 
on the outside: tube very short. Styles two, white, 
bipartite: Germen detached, smooth, green. 
