inches in breadth, subpyramidal ; branches spreading, and 
branchlets terminated by globose heads of very shortly 
pedicelled very pale cream-colrd. ebracteate flowers about 
one-third of an inch broad. Calyx campanulate, mouth 
shortly, obtusely, irregularly toothed. Corolla-tube very 
short ; segments ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading. la- 
ments about as long as the corolla-lobes. Ovary glabrous ; 
style exserted ; stigma 2-fid. Capsule an inch long, linear- 
oblong, obtuse; valves thin, brown, pustulate. Seeds 
lanceolate, obtuse at both ends, dorsally convex, ventrally 
excayate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Fascicles of flowers ; 2, anther ; 3, ovary; all enlarged; 4, capsules, 
and 9, seeds (from Rupr. Dee. 1. c.) of nat. size, 
