fleshy, uniformly coloured on both surfaces. Inflorescence 
an erect, sessile, cylindric, thyrsiform, most dense-flowered 
glaucous panicle, six to twelve inches high, and three in 
diameter, formed of crowded, few-flowered, bracteate 
racemes; bracts oblong or cylindric, obtuse. Flowers 
shortly pedicelled, about half an inch long. Sepals about 
one-third the length of the corolla, linear, obtuse, fleshy. 
Corolla-tube ovoid-oblong, terete, glaucous green, mouth 
constricted ; lobes small, broadly ovate, spreading and 
recurved, bright yellow within. Stamens eight, in two series 
at the mouth of the corolla; filaments very short, anthers 
small, broad. Glands oblong, truncate, retuse. Carpels 
three, narrowed into short, recurved styles, with truncate 
stigmas.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Top of pedicel with two sepals, hypogynous glands and ovaries; 
2, corolla laid open; 3, stamen:—AU/ enlarged. 
