glossy green above, with oval, white, margaritaceous spots ar- 
ranged in single lines or series between the veins, and following — 
their direction: beneath pale, the veins red-purple. Peduncles — 
red, terminal, generally surrounded at the base by a whorl of 
subsessile leaves, or foliaceous bracts, smaller than the cauline 
ones. Corymb of eight to ten flowers, with minute, subulate 
bracts at the base of the pedicels. Calyx-tube oblong, trique- 
trous, adnate with the ovary, striated, sometimes a little glan- 
dular; Zimé erect, of three, nearly erect, acute lobes. Petals 
three, obovate, sharply acuminate, rose-coloured. Stamens three, — 
inserted on the limb of the calyx, alternating with the petals ; fi/a- 
ments nearly erect, subulate ; anthers subulate, two-lobed at the 
base, long-rostrate, opening by two minute pores at the apex. — 
Style subulate ; stigma capitate, small. 4 
Se REESE 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Tranverse section of the ovary. 
4. Stamens :—magnijied. 
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