As a species it is characterized by its wild and irregular growth, its smooth elliptic leaves, the numerous 
bractes from its jointed stem, its 2~3-florous bractes or scales producing a succession of small violet-coloured 
- flowers, each, in decay, crowning with a convolute scroll, a single seed till ripe. These seeds are rather 
more oblong in shape, and smaller in size, than those of T. dealhata, and are perforated in a similar manner, 
The present plant was gathered by Mr. Parker, on the banks of trenches at Coffee-Grove, in Demerara. 
Its growth there is from four to five feet high. a 
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. Two flowers enclosed in the floral bractes. . 
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. The two flowers on their pedicels. 
3. Germen, outer limb of the corolla, upper lip of the interior limb, anther, style and. 
stigma, in position. 
4. Filament, anther, style and stigma, highly magnified. 
Or 
. Seed, with its permanent bractes. 
2) 
Seed cut transversely. 
