midrib visible on the under side, except near the tip. Panicle 
deltoid, erect, shortly peduncled, usually about a foot long 
and broad, with several densely-flowered spreading branches, 
bract eated by lanceolate reduced leaves ; pedicels solitary, an 
eighth to a quarter of an inch long, articulated at the tip ; 
bracts membranous, the upper ODes deltoid, shorter than the 
pedicels, the lower ones lanceolate. Perianth whitish, half 
to three-quarters of an inch long, the tube very short. 
Stamens reaching to the tip of the perianth-segments ; the 
filament five or six times as long as the pale yellow linear- 
oblong anther. Berry passing from orange to red, generally 
globose and one-seeded. — J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, A single flower ; 2, a single stamen ; 3, the pistil : — all magnified. 
