5-24-34 introse, blue. Articulation of pedicle (4 289) is directly under the fl (not evident to eye but withered flo fall off at that point). Style just a little longer than stamens, with 3 very short lobes. Veins in sepals more than 5. This with length of segs prob rules out C. ceculeata Robinson. lf. 17mm broad (with rounded heel) with many fine parallel veins. 5-24-34 ? Crucianella stylosa Trin. BMG CP 916 = Phacopsis Phacopsis - Benthian v Hooker SV II 320 Fl. Droge. Garden. Plant looks exactly like a Halium before flowering, and like an Cephala (but 5-merous) in flower. St. angled (4 below, 6 above), ridged with down-curved hairs on angles, sometimes awn-like at base of internode. Leaves rounded (mostly in 8's) at tips, lanceolate, fine pointed, ridged on edges & mid-nerve beneath, 21x3mm, as long as internodes. Fls in a compact, rounded head fully 6 inches diam. Fls crimson-pink, fragrant. Tubers very slender 10 mm long. lobes 2mm. Style exserted 6mm of which 1+mm is the 2-lobed almost equal stigma. Stamens sessile just below sinuses. Each fl provided with a bract (in center) inf bracts are about 1/2 as long as corolla but at outside of infl the bracts are longer & more like little lvs) and in addition directly under the ovary are 2 small bracts each subtending what is either a bud or an abortive fl. Ovaries correct for the family. Note: plant in no way