Leaves in alternate fascicles, evergreen, two to three inches long, 
nearly sessile, spreading or recurved, lanceolate, sinuato-serrate, 
penninerved, the serratures and apex tipped with harsh spiny 
points. From the centre of the fascicle of leaves spring the ag- 
sregated peduncles of drooping flowers, six to eight or more in a 
cluster. Pedicels slender, simple, bracteated at the base, bearing 
a single, rather large, bright but palish, yellow fower. Calya of 
many, nine to twelve or more, spreading, rounded, concave 
sepals, the three outer slightly tinged with red. Pefals six, 
erect, rounded, concave, resembling the inner sepals, but smaller, 
and a little retuse at the apex, obscurely veined. Stamens six, 
their structure as in the genus. laments simple, held back in 
the hollow of the petal, for a time, by two oblong glands, which - 
are an enlargement of the base of two of the veins of the petal. 
Ovary oblong-cylindrical. Stigma nearly sessile, large, flat, but 
umbilicated in the centre. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal and stamen. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
