branched. Leaf-spines one to two lines long, decurved. 
Phyllocladia solitary, or in clusters of two to four, flat, 
linear, sometimes slightly curved, glabrous, pungent at 
the apex, an inch to an inch and a quarter long, about a 
twelfth of an inch wide. Flowers a quarter of an inch in 
diameter, in solitary or geminate racemes about an inch 
and a half long; pedicels articulated near the middle; 
bracts half as long as the pedicels, lanceolate, acuminate. 
Perianth-segments obovate-oblong, the inner denticulate at 
the apex, pale pink. Jilaments flattened, about half as 
long as the perianth-segments ; anthers oval, orange- 
colour. Ovary oblong, constricted below. Fruit glovose, 
3 lin, in diam., crimson.—C. H. Waicat. 
Fig. 1, portion of stem bearing three racemes; 2, a node, showing the 
insertion of the phyllocladia and racemes; 3, fruit :—all enlarged. 
