lanceolate, obtuse, acute, or drawn out into a long obtuse 
or acute point, membranous or thinly coriaceous; stipules 
very small, triangular. Flowers solitary or three to four 
together in the axils of the leaves, shortly pedicelled, erect, _ 
minutely bracteolate under the calyx, white, sweet-scented. 
Calyx very small, tube cylindric, puberulous, truncate or 
minutely five-toothed. Corolla white, tube three-quarters 
of an inch to one inch long, very slender; limb two-thirds 
of an inch to one inch in diameter, lobes ovate or lanceolate 
obtuse. Anthers included, linear, sessile, their tips only 
exserted.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower cut longitudinally; 2, stamens; 3, imperfect stigma; 4, bracts 
and ovary; 5, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. ; 
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