and smooth above, convex and longitudinally striated 
beneath. Flowers longer than the leaves, axillary, solitary, 
drooping, pointing to one side, on short bracteated stalks ; 
bracteas small, ovate, imbricated, larger upwards, and, as 
it were, gradually passing into the five leaves of the calyx. 
These last are slightly downy, ovato-lanceolate, eréct. 
Corolla white or cream-colour, the segments of the limb 
Spreading, rather acute. Stamens included. Capsule 
small, membranaceous, pale brown, included within the 
persistent calyx, bursting open between the dissepiments 
into five valves, containing many chaffy seeds, and crowned 
with the lengthened red style and rather large capitate 
stigma. : 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with the Corolla laid open, showing the 
Stamens and Pistil :—magnified, 
