wards; the branches angular. Leaves scattered, linear, 
three-fourths of an inch to an inch in length, mucronate, 
glabrous and quite entire at the margin, slightly glaucous. 
The flowers are, at first, before expansion, corymbose, 
afterwards the rachis is lengthened out, and in the state of 
fruit there is an elongated raceme, the pedicels half an inch 
long, pointing one way. Bracteas lanceolato-acuminate, 
aristate, as well as the sepals, which, have three to five pro- 
minent ribs, and are serrulate at the margin. Corolla large, 
yellow, deeper and almost orange at the base. Petals 
obovate, entire ; the claw at the very base hairy. Stamens 
five. Anthers sagittate. Germen globose. Style longer 
than the stamens, dividing at the extremity into five patent 
branches, each tipped with a globose stigma. Capsule 
globose, acute, five-celled, five-valved. 
Fig. 1. Calyx, including the Stamens and Pistil. 2. Petal. 
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