the stem towards the base, undulated towards the margin, 
especially in the lower half. Peduncle simple, terete, above 
a foot long, furnished only with two or three small clasping 
lanceolate membranous bract-leaves below the inflorescence. 
Raceme simple, very lax, under a foot long; flowers bright 
yellow, arranged in pairs; pedicels cernuous, a quarter or 
half an inch long, articulated below the middle; bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, membranous, longer than the pedicels. 
Perianth three-quarters of an inch long; segments with a 
keel of three greenish ribs; outer segments oblanceolate- 
oblong, inner obovate-oblong, a third of an inch broad. 
Stamens shorter than the perianth-segments; filaments 
fiiform, hispid; anthers linear-oblong, versatile, shorter 
than the filaments. Ovary sessile, elliptical; style straight, 
longer than the ovary; stigma capitate. Fruit a loculicidal 
capsule.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, A stamen, front view; 2,a stamen, back view; 3, pistil, complete; 4, 
horizontal section of the ovary :—all more or less enlarged. 
