ftalks, fearcely a fpan high, thickly clothed with fmall ovate 
flefhy leaves, fmooth on each fide, ciliated at the edge ; when 
young, they appear ferrated with a gland-bearing hair to cach 
tooth; but as they grow older they become more flefhy, the 
notches difappear, and the glands at thé extremity of the hairs _ 
perifh. The Flower-Stalks about an inch long, hairy with glands, 
grow three or four together from the extremity of the branch, 
having two fmall concave braétez at the bafe, and bearing each 
one flower. The Calyx is five-cleft, the fegments conniving, 
lanceolate-oval. The Corolla of one petal, deeply divided into ~ 
- five fegments, which are ovate, entire, and rotate, of a lively. 
purple colour, fpotted at the bafe., Filaments ten, equal, longer 
than the corolla, incurved towards the tip, white; Anthers 
black, attached at the fide; Pollen white. The Germ is hemi- 
 fpherical, of a green colour; the Style white, of an equal — 
length or fomewhat exceeding the ftamens; the Stigma fimple | 
and green. The Seed-Veffel we have not feen. 
