again, 6 inches to a foot high. Leaves 6—8 in a whorl,
linear-lanceolate, obtuse, rough about the margin, the lower
ones ovate-lanceolate. The cotyledons nearly orbicular,
large, often persistent. Flowers in terminal umbels, sessile,
in pairs, surrounded by ciliated bracteas. Corolla blue,
striped. Fruit glabrous, large.—J . D. C. S.
