Seeds of this species were lately received by Lady De 
Clifford from the Cape of Good Hope; and from these the 
plant from which our drawing is taken, has been raised at 
the Nursery of Messrs. Colville in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
We believe it had been long ago lost in this country. Very 
ornamental when in flower, of easy culture, and a free 
blower. 
Shbrubby, 1-2 feet high or more: branches axillary, 
flexuose, varicosely nerved, green, distantly leaved, covered. 
with whitish opaque particles of chrystallized gum, very 
slightly pubescent at the upper part. Leaves scattered, 
spreading, longer than the intervals, petioled, 2-3 inches 
long or more, and generally about half that breadth, ob- 
long, subrhomboidally ovate, rounded at the end, cuneate 
towards the petiole, covered with the same kind of gummy 
particles as the branches: petiole narrowly bordered: sti- 
pules (or rather perhaps earlets of the petioles) two, facing 
each other by the interior edge like the base of a perfoliate 
leaf, herbaceous, reticulately veined, widespread, sub- 
semiorbicularly-oblate, repand, much shorter than, the 
petiole with the border of which they are continuous. 
Spikes manyflowered, upright, fastigiate, close, short: 
flowers of a whitish blue or french-grey, about 2 inches 
long, ascending: peduncles one-flowered, very short, or 
scarcely any: bractes. generally in threes, herbaceous, ru- 
bescent, linearly taper-pointed, recurved, twice shorter than 
the calyx or more. Calyx green, reddening here and there, 
twice shorter than the tube of the corolla, tubular, 5-cor- 
nered, scored by five paler plaits, echinately beset with seti- 
form viscously headed fleshy excrescences: tube of the co- 
rolla slender, linearly clavate, 5-cornered, two or three 
times longer than the segments of the limb: limb marked 
with 5 deeper blue rays, segments cuneately obovate. Sta- 
mens and pistil even with the tube: filaments white, scarcely _ 
thicker than the thread of a silk-worm: anthers violet, 
turned inwards, sagittately linear, upright. Germen nearly 
round smooth. 
