thick as a sparrow quill, and like the surface of the leaves 
tessellated and papillose with bladdery cells; young parts 
minutely hispid, each papilla bearing a bristle. Leaves in 
distant pairs, about one inch long, somewhat recurved, semi- 
terete, with very rounded sides, tipped with a pencil of about 
ten spreading brown bristles, connate at the base, light green, 
fleshy. owers three-fourths of an inch in diameter, on long 
slender terminal peduncles. Calyz-tube turbinately hemi- 
spheric, obscurely obtusely angled, green; limb of five 
spreading and recurved segments like the leaves, of which 
two exceed the petals, and are tipped like the leaves with 
bristles. Petals biseriate, the inner shorter, narrow linear, 
obtuse, very various in colour, white fading to rose-colour, 
or ochreous, or red. Stamens short, filaments white; the 
outer with imperfect anthers. Stigmas five, small, short, 
conic, recurved.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of stem and leaves; 2, vertical section of flower; 
3, stigmas :—all magnified. 
