branches. Flowers in terminal heads, pure white, very 
delicate. Bracteas two at the base of the calyx. Corolla 
salver-shaped, the limb of five spreading, very obtuse, obo- 
vate segments: the mouth contracted. Stamens from the 
tube of the corolla, included: Anthers reddish-purple : 
pollen and filaments white. Germen globose, green, with 
five hypogynous glands. Style thickened upwards, shorter 
than the corolla. Stigma obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil and hypogynous Glands. 3. Stamens :— 
magnified. 
