crowded, thick, rigid, oblong-lanceolate, three to nine 
lines long, margin recurved, toothed, sharply spine-tipped. — 
Flowers solitary, axillary, about three lines long; stalks 
shorter than the leaves, furnished with two to four scale- 
like bracteoles. Calya five-toothed; teeth ovate, acute. 
Corolla white, tinged with rose, urceolate, five-toothed ; 
teeth recurved. Stamens ten, included; anthers two- 
awned at the tip. /ruit baccate, globose, about half an 
inch in diameter, many-seeded, pink, red, purple or 
white. Seeds very small, flattened, angular—W. Bortine 
Hemstny. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2, a stamen; 3, a pistil:—all enlarged. 
