stem. acemes terminal or subterminal, cylindric, obtuse, 
one and a half to two inches long, shortly peduncled ; rachis 
hairy. Flowers one-third to half an inch long, crowded, 
white, shortly pedicelled, glabrous. Perianth slender; tip 
ovoid, subacute, terete. Zorvs naked, straight, without a 
gland. Ovary glandular-pubescent, subglobose, on a rather 
slender glandular stipes ; style sigmoid, glandular, terminating 
in an oblong papillose head that suddenly dilates into a glan- 
dular stigma, furnished with a narrow central cone.— 
fDi. 
Fig. 1, Pair of flowers on rachis; 2, top of pedicel, ovary and its stipes: 
—both magnified, 
