diameter, strict, erect, cylindric. Flowers in fascicles of 
three to six, suberect, very shortly pedicelled; bracts 
minute, ovate, acute, pale green. Perianth very pale 
greenish white, tube narrow, half an inch long, cylindric ; 
lobes about as long as the tube, linear-oblong, obtuse. 
Filaments as long as the perianth-lobes ; anthers oblong. 
Ovary trigonous, 8-lobed, lobes pitted at the top; styles 
filiform, exserted, stigma minute. Fruit, according to 
Roxburgh, of two to three pisiform, orange-coloured, 
1-seeded berries.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, portion of do. laid open; 3 and 4 anthers; 5, ovary :— 
All enlarged. 
