of the present year in a cool greenhouse. The flowers were 

 pure white, but are described in Gossone's Flora Sicula as 



flesh-coloured. 



Desce. A much-branched shrub one to two feet high ; 

 branches slender, erect, all parts viscidly puberulous. 

 Leaves uniform, in rather close-set whorls of four, half an 

 inch long, spreading, linear, subacute, dark green, margins 

 recurved, white beneath. Flow*, ra in terminal subcorymbose 

 clusters of four to six, pedicelled, nodding or drooping; 

 pedicels a quarter to one-half of an inch long, reddish ; 

 bracts like the leaves, but pale pink. five-partite, 



segments oblong-lanceolate, pale pink, spreading. Corolla 

 one-third of an inch long, ovoidly urceolate, terete, white 

 or pale flesh-coloured ; lobes small, broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 reflexed. Stamens 5, included; filaments short, flat, geni- 

 culate near the top ; anthers erect, inserted at the back 

 near the base, bipartite, cells slightly diverging, slits elon- 

 gate. Disk-glands obscure. Ovary terete or obscurely 

 ten-grooved, truncate, pubescent, white; style elongate, 

 glabrous; stigma capitate ; cells five, many-ovuled. Cap- 

 sule crustaceous, loculicidally five-valved, many-seeded. 

 Seeds minute, shining. — J. I).H. 



Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, pedicel and flower ; 3 and 4, front and back view of stamens ; 

 5, ovary ; 6, transverse section of do. :— all enlarged. 



