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una radice, ereeti, apice paullo enrvati, simplieissimi, 1 —%- 
pedales, %/, — 1” in diametro crassi, teretes, laete - virides, 
glaberrimi, Jongitudinaliter suleato -striati. Folia sessilia, al- 
terna, linearia, angustissima, crassinscala, integerrima, mu- 
eronulata, rugoso-striata, utringue eoncoloria, laete - viridia, 
inferiora congestiora 8 — 1%” long., superiora sparsiora 2 
— 3% jong., canlis pars suprema fere aphylia, Stipulae‘ 
deeiduse, Racemi terminales, albreviati, pancifiori. Flores 
solitarü, breviter pedicellati, tribracteati. Pedicelli %, — %ı 
lin. longi, teretes, crassiusculi, glabri, utrinque longitudinali- 
ter striali, flavescenti-virides, Bractea axi opposita major, 
sessilis, cerassa, integerrima, linearis, subulata, apice acnmi- 
nata, retrorsum rugulosa, rnbescens, margine albescens, 3 
—4°" long., hracteolae laterales dimidio breviores, ceteram 
ut bracteae, Calycis tubus hemisphaeriens, 10-striatus, ear- 
nosus, rubescens, laciniae concolores, dnplo longiores, cras- 
sinsenlae, lineari-subulatae, 21/, — 3 long., apice obtu- 
sinseulae. Corolla pseudomonopetala, petala basi libera, in 
ungues longos in tubum curvafum cohaerentes producta, me- 
dio in tubum cylindraceum curvatum connata, limbo profunde 
5-partito , laciniae 3— 4°” long. erassinscnlae, lineari -subu- 
latae, incurvo-patulae, marginibns paullo involutae, apice ob- 
tusiuseulae, inbus cum Jaciniis extrorsum purpurascens,. Sia- 
mina inaeqnalia, tria longiora, tubo paullo breviora, duo 
altera alterna tubo dimidio paullo longiera. Filamenta fili- 
formia, subulata, alba, plana. Autherae oblongae, apice 
paullo emarginatae, basi latiores, luteae, biloculares, locali 
introrsum rima longitudinali dehiscentes. Pollinis grana sieca 
oblonga, rima longitudinali instracta, triporosa, extus cellu- 
loso-reiicnlata, sulphurea. Stylus simplex, brevis, teres, 
glaberrimus. Stigmata tria stylo triplo longiora, Kliformia 
subulata, apiee acuta, glaberrima, undigue papillosa. Ovarium 
