rosette, sessile, oblanceolate, spreading, persistent, glabrous, 

 moderately firm in texture, green tinged with purple. 

 Peduncle as long as or longer than the leaves, bearing a 

 few small adpressed rudimentary leaves. Flowers two to 

 ten in a raceme, which is sometimes oongested into a co- 

 rymb or an umbel ; pedicels cernuous, about as long as the 

 flowers ; bracts small, lanceolate. Perianth campanulate, 

 reddish, half an inch long ; segments oblanceolate, free to 

 the base, spreading in the upper half when fully expanded. 

 mens as long as or a little longer than the perianth- 

 segments ; filaments cylindrical ; anthers oblong, versatile. 

 Ovary globose; ovules many in a cell; style overtopping 

 the anthers; stigma capitate. Capsule coriaceous, shorter 

 than the persistent perianth-segments, split down to the 

 base. Seeds small, very numerous, conspicuously tailed at 

 both ends. — J". G. Bah 



Fig. 1, Vertical section of a flower ; 2, front view of a stamen ; 3, back view of a 

 6tamen ; 4, entire pistil ; 5, horizontal section of ovary : — all inore or less enlarged. 



