Leaves very variable, four to eight inches long, sessile, or 
very shortly petioled, from narrowly linear to oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, distantly toothed, base acute; 
midrib beneath stout; nerves few, very slender. Racemes 
peduncled, axillary in the uppermost leaves and terminal, 
longer or shorter than the leaves, erecto-patent, laxly many- 
flowered; peduncle and rhachis slender; pedicels one- 
fourth to one-third of an inch long, often binate; bracts 
none. Flowers about half an inch broad, greenish white. 
Perianth-segments linear, revolute beyond the middle, tips 
dilated, broadly ovate, obtuse. Anthers small, sessile ; 
cells divaricate, meeting at their tips. Hypogynous glands 
three, globose. Ovary on a long stout stipes, ellipsoid, 
glabrous, narrowed into very stout incurved style with a 
broad peltate obtusely trigonous stigma. Capsule an inch 
long, thinly coriaceous, stipitate, gibbously oblong-lanceo- 
Prey compressed, smooth, glabrous, many-seeded. 
—J, D. H. 
. Fig. 1, flower and pedicel; 2, pedicel, glands, and pistil; 3, capsule ; 
4, interior of the same with one wall removed, showing the seeds; 5, embryo 
(figs. 3-5 from Geertner) :—All but figs. 3 and 4 enlarged, 
