strongly veined: the veins more or less anastomosing. Racemes 
copious from among the leaves, and longer than them, drooping, 
secund, many-flowered. Pedicels at first about twice the length 
of the glabrous flowers, but elongating as the fruit advances to 
maturity, white, fleshy, pellucid, dilated at the apex, at the base 
having a small lanceolate and somewhat fimbriated dract. 
Calyz-teeth five, small, triangular. Corolla conico-urceolate, 
with a limb of five small spreading teeth. The colour is white, 
the substance waxy, subdiaphanous. Stamens ten. Filaments 
short, glabrous, linear-subulate. _Anther subulate, two-lobed at 
the base, the two cells opening by a pore at the apex, and the 
back extending so as to form two erect awns. Berries copious, 
about the size of peas, globose, depressed, pure-white, waxy; 
with five dark spots in a circle below the apex, which are the 
remains of the small calyx, five-celled. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Stamens. 4. Bract, pedicel; and 
berry. 6. Transversé séction of a berry :—magnified. 
