purple in the short intervals, shallowly dichotomous at the 
top, each branch bearing flowers, sometimes branching below. 
Leaves decussately opposite, close, decrescent, uprightly 
spreading, stiflish, blueishly green, opaque, elongately ob- 
long, subulately lanceolate, the longer ones about 2 inches 
long, about half an inch broad at the widest, thick, fleshy, 
ciliately edged with an exceedingly narrow fringed cartilage, 
flattish at the upper side, slightly convex at the under, con- 
nately sheathing at the base. Inflorescence compactly um- 
belled, terminal, subsessile: wmbels contiguously twin, many- 
flowered ; peduncles exceedingly short, bracteate; bractes 
about three, close-pressed, foliaceous, linearly lanceolate, 
unequal, shorter than the calyx; flowers about an inch and 
an half long. Calyx 3 of an inch deep, herbaceous, converg- 
ing cylindrically, narrow, thick, parted to far below the 
middle; segments linearly lanceolate, acuminate} glandularly 
ciliate, subviscous. Corolla narrowly hypocrateriform ; tube 
linearly cylindrical, longer than the calyx, greenish; limb 
parti-coloured, white and crimson, recurvedly spreading, 
about 3 times shorter than the tube: petals linearly spatu- 
late; unguis upright, green, narrow, lamina ovally oblong, 
obtuse. Stamens enclosed. Anthers upright, yellow, oblong. 
Pistils 5, equal to the tube, subulate, united, with a small 
scale at the base of each. 
The crimson red of the corolla fades as the flower re- 
mains expanded. 
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