Perianth-tube 1 cm. long, 0*9 cm. in diameter, campanulate, 

 glabrous ; lobes 1*2 cm. long, linear, obtuse and recurved at 

 the apex, with a tuft of hairs on each alternate lobe, otherwise 

 glabrous. Stamens exserted, arising at the throat of the 

 perianth-tube ; filaments usually about 1*6 cm. long, hermosa 

 pink (E.C.S.) ; anthers yellow. Ovary 6 mm. long, ellipsoid; 

 style longer than the stamens, hermosa pink (E.C.S.) ; stigma 

 minute, globose. Fruit a bright-red berry about 1 cm. in 

 diameter, sub-globose, 1-3 seeded. 



Plate 32. — Fig. 1, plant reduced ; Fig. 2, flower, with bract ; Fig. 3, stamen, 

 showing attachment to segment of the perianth. 



F.P.S.A., 1921. 



