the base ; branches annual, diffuse or suberect, cylindric, three 
to six inches high, green. Leaves opposite, decussate, two to 
three inches long, spreading and recurved, slightly connate 
by their sessile bases, oblanceolate or linear-oblong and 
dilated beyond the middle, acute, deep green, upper surface 
slightly convex, channelled towards the base, under tumid and 
rounded towards the keel; margins acute, slightly recurved. 
Peduncles subterminal, three to four inches long, stout, terete, 
green, gradually dilated into the almost hemispheric bristly 
terete calyx-tube. Calyax-lobes 5, unequal, spreading and 
recurved, cylindric, obtuse, papillose and scabrid, green, 
two smaller than the others and having broad membranous 
margins. Corolla two to two and a half inches in diameter. 
Petals very numerous, pale bright-purple, linear, very narrow, 
obtuse. Stamens very numerous in many series, the outer 
without anthers. Curpels 5, globose; stigmas large, ovoid, 
acuminate, terminating in hair-like points, densely clothed 
with large papille on the inner surface and margins. 5 
J. DE, 
Fig.1, Apex of peduncle, carpels, and stigma :—enlarged. 
