or elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, acuminate, base acute, 

 membranous, many-nerved, with a distinct midrib, bright 

 green above, with irregularly disposed orbicular large and 

 small white spots, paler beneath. Racemes two to three 

 inches long, ascending from the tips of the drooping 

 branches, peduncle short, with lanceolate, membranous, 

 erect bracts, rhachis green ; flowers nearly an inch 

 long, in rather distant clusters of three each ; pedicels 

 slender, a sixth to a fourth of an inch long, with one 

 membranous, lanceolate white bract, and two minute ones 

 at its base. Perianth pale green, tube very slender in the 

 middle, gradually enlarged to the clavate base and infundi- 

 bular limb, which latter is formed of six linear obtuse lobes 

 as long as the tube. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth- 

 lobes, anthers oblong. Ovary ovoid, style very slender, 

 stigma minute. Berries globose, vermilion-red, one half 

 to two-thirds of an inch in diameter. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, pistil ; 5, transverse section of ovary :— 

 All enlarged. 



