lanceolate, membranous; pedicels about as lono- as the 

 flowers, articulated at the apex. Perianth halt or three- 

 quarters of an inch long ; segments obloiur, obtuse, keeled 

 with green, rather shorter than the broadly funnel-shaped 

 tube. Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube; 

 anthers all perfect, those opposite the outer segments with 

 a very short, those opposite the inner segments with a 

 longer filament. Ovary oblong, distinctly Btipitate ; ovules 

 about six m a cell ; style short; stigma capitate. Fruit a 

 capsule.— J. G. Bal 



<* f; l ^l 1 ' Se / t / !onoflea f ; 2 ' f J ower °P entd ««*i «ith two .e-ments taken away 

 3, pistil : — all more or less enlarged. 



