Drscr. Quite glabrous. Rootstock of clustered subglobose 
woody tubers, one to one and a half inches in diameter, irre- 
gularly constricted on the surface concentrically. Branches 
many, six to twelve inches high, branched from the very | 
base, suberect, very slender, leafy, paniculately branched 
above; branchlets suberect, almost capillary, 1-flowered 
at the tips. Leaves scattered, numerous, one-half to three- 
quarters of an inch long, spreading and rather deflexed, 
narrow linear, uniform, obtuse or acute, slightly toothed at 
the margin, bright green, I-nerved. Flowers very copiously 
produced at the tips of the panicled branches, erect, half an 
inch long ; the branches that bear them forming filiform pe- 
duncles with one or two small recurved leaves. Ovary 
obconic, very short. Calya-seyments half as long as the 
corolla, narrowly linear, spreading and recurved, green, with 
one or two teeth on each side. Corolla bell-shaped, white 
with five bright rose-red bands down the segments and tube 
externally ; segments short, ovate, recurved.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower; 3, the same laid open :—all magnified. 
