short stalk, often a little oblique, fleshy, flat, veinless, 
sparingly hairy. Flowers white, from the axille of the 
leaves, stalked, solitary. Calyx turbinate, unequally 5- 
cleft, inflated, glandular-hairy, somewhat clammy, as long 
as the tube of corolla. Corolla with a cylindrical, pubes- 
cent, striated tube, and aspreading, plaited, obsoletely 5- 
lobed limb, with rounded, acute lobes. Stamens dilated at 
the base, inserted below the middle of the tube, included. 
Filaments filiform, hairy. -Anthers small, yellow. Ovary 
surrounded by a yellow disk, ovate, 2-celled, many-seeded. 
Style filiform, deciduous, the length of stamens. Stigma 
capitate, obscurely 2-lobed, pubescent, green. ae 
