nating the branchlets, sometimes partially leaved at the lower 
part, pedicles alternate, oneflowered, filiform, outspread, 
about equal to their flower: bractes membranous, minute, 
red, subulate, caducous and seldom found on the plant. 
Leaves subcylindrical, subspatulately oblong, obtuse, marked 
with red linear dots, hollowed or channelled on the inside 
near the base. Calyx cupular, 7-cleft, green with red linear 
dots, twice shorter than the corolla; persistent, segments 
obtuse. Petals 7, oblong, bluntish, spreading, caducous: 
glandule crystalline, very small, oblate, indented at the top 
with a deepish sinus, one at the base of every germen. 
Pistils 7 even with the corolla. Germens 7, slightly in- 
bowed, broad and flattish at the back, tapering inwards 
to an edge, at first white and glittering, at last of the 
substance and colour of the foliage, glandularly muri- 
cated at the base on the inside, beaked at the top by the 
white continuous style. Stamens 14, even with the corolla 
spreading; filaments setaceous, white; anthers dark-purple, 
twin, roundish. 
