pointing obliquely upwards, one to two inches long, very 
narrow linear-lanceolate, or almost acerose, narrowed at both 
ends, almost pungent, margins revolute, above deep green 
and glabrous or rather rough, silky and white beneath; 
petiole very short. acemes short, terminal, and on very 
short lateral shoots, subglobose, dense-flowered, about one 
and a half inches long; rachis glabrous. Mowers deep 
blood-red, with green tips, in pairs from a subulate bract, 
pedicels very short. Perianth a quarter of an inch long, 
turgid and gibbous at the base, suddenly contracted into the | 
revolute green limb. Torus nearly straight; gland semicir- 
cular, broad, thick. Ovary sessile, glabrous. Style twice as 
long as the perianth, red-purple, witha tuft of hairs at the 
base ; stigma oblique, discoid. —/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, a pair of flowers and bracts; 3, stigma :—all magnified. 
