abruptly ascending from the base, flexuous, terete, simple 
above, leafy. Leaves half to one inch long, scattered, sessile, 
cylindric, obtuse, smooth, pale green, the base produced into 
two longer or shorter ears, which sometimes form obtuse, 
spreading spurs. Cymes umbellately spreading from the top 
of the stem, or more rarely paniculately arranged along its — 
upper half, three to six inches long, recurved, slender, very 
_ many-flowered, erect in fruit. Flowers nearly half an inch 
in diameter, quite sessile, 8-merous, except the central one 
in the forks, which is 10-merous ; bracts linear, green, nearly 
equalling the petals. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse. Petals 
twice as long, linear, subacute, rose-purple. Stamens shorter 
than the petals; anthers purple-brown. Glands small, 
square, emarginate. Ovaries rather shorter than the stamens, 
cylindric, oblong, narrowed into slender, subulate, suberect 
styles.—J. D. ZH. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flowers; 3, glands and carpels; 4, fruit :—all magnified. 
