purple in the short intei*vals, shallowly dichotomous at the 

 top, each branch bearing flowers, sometimes branching below. 

 Leaves decussately opposite, close, decrescent, uprightly 

 spreading, stiffisli, blueishly green, opaque, elongately ob- 

 long, subuliitely lanceolate, the longer ones about 2 inches 

 long, about half an inch broad at the widest, thick, fleshy, 

 ciliately edged with an exceedingly narrow fringed cartilage, 

 flattish at the upper side, slightly convcK at the under, con- 

 nately sheathing at the base. Inflorescence compactly um- 

 belled, terminal, subsessile: umbels contiguously twin, mauy- 

 flowered ; peduncles exceedingly short, bracteate ; bractes 

 about three, close-pressed, foliaceous, linearly lanceolate, 

 unequal, shorter than the calyx ; Jiowers about an inch and 

 an half long. Calyx | of an inch deep, herbaceous, converg- 

 ing cylindrically, narrow, thick, parted to far below the 

 middle ; segments linearly lanceolate, acuminate, glandularly 

 ciliate, subviscous. Corolla narrowly hypocrateriform ; tube 

 linearly cylindrical, longer than the calyx, greenish ; Umb 

 parti-coloured, white and crimson, recurvedly spreading, 

 about 3 times shorter than the tube : petals linearly spatu- 

 late ; unguis ^upright, green, narrow, lamina ovally oblong, 

 obtuse. Stamens enclosed. Anthers upright, yellow, oblong. 

 Pistils 5, equal to the tube, subulate, united, with a small 

 scale at the base of each. 



The crimson red of the corolla fades as the flower re- 

 mains expanded. 



