and dense-flowered, §-14 in. long; peduncles 1-11 in. 
long; bracts elliptic-oblong or oblong-spathulate, ;4—§ in. 
long; pedicels $ in. long. Calyx greenish-white; tube 
about ; in. long; segments ,4 in. long, about ,', in. broad, 
somewhat spreading, obtuse, conspicuously few-veined. 
Petals white, broadly obovate-spathulate or rhomboid- 
obovate, scarcely half as long as the calyx-segments. 
Ovary densely covered with shortly stalked pale yellow 
glands. Berry purplish- or bluish-black, ovoid-globose, 
about % in. across, edible, sparingly furnished with stalked 
glands.—S. A. Sxan. 
Fig. 1, flower, with bract attached to the base of the pedicel; 2 and 3, 
stamens; 4, portion of the epidermis of the ovary with gland-tipped hairs; 
5, seeds :—all enlarged. 
