Corolla almost infundibuliform, white, quinquefid at the ex- 
tremity. Stamens united by the anthers. Pistil: Germen 
_wery long, linear, tetraangular: Style filiform. Stigma 
bifid. Capsule acutely quadrangular, two-celled, four-valvy- 
ed, the valves opening longitudinally. Dissepiment linear, 
membranaceous, at length free, thi, membranaceous, with. 
a central thickened rib, to which the seeds are attached on 
both sides. Seeds in two ranks, elliptical, plane, dotted. 
Introduced to the Royal Gardens, according to the Hor- 
tus Kewensis, by Mr. Masson, from the Cape of Good Hope, 
in 1787. It appears then to have been lost to our collec- 
tions for a number of years, until seeds were again sent to 
oe ge Gardens at Kew, from the Cape, by Mr. Bowie, 
in : 
Porter describes the corolla as rotate ; which, it as- 
suredly, is not, either in the Kew plant, or in dried spe- 
cimens we have in the Herbarium ;—on the contrary, 
it is an unusually long and narrow tube for the genus. 
The capsule is as long as narrow, and as regularly tetra- 
gonal as that of an Epilobium ; it splits from top to bottom 
ito four valves, and contains a dissepiment bearing two 
rows of seeds on each side. 
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Fig. 1. Flower and Bractee. 2. Stamens and Style. 3. Capsule: one 
of the Valves separated from the bottom to shew the Dissepiment bearing the 
Seeds. 4. Portion of the Dissepiment. 5. Seeds—Magnified. = 
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