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 parallel veins beneath. Stipulæ none. Flowers about the middle of the branches, axillary, solitary, spreading, on very short, downy flower-stalks, furnished with two or three minute, pungent, downy bracteæ. Calyx imbricated, smooth, striated, pungent; the five innermost leaves lanceolate, nearly equal; the three, four or five outer ones much shorter, broader, and gradually less. Corolla four times as long as the calyx, crimson, tubular, swelling upwards, externally smooth, internally very hairy, especially just above the base; limb in five linear, revolute, hairy segments. Stamina alternate with those segments, and inserted at their base, projecting, simple, smooth; antheræ versatile, incumbent. Germen small, globular, furrowed, smooth, invested at the base with a sort of entire membrane, probably the nectarium of Solander; style capillary, longer than the stamina; stigma small, obscurely notched, smooth. Fruit an oval smooth drupa, which we have only seen half-ripe, but in that state it plainly exhibited the generic character.

1. Flower-stalk, bracteæ and calyx. 2. Calyx leaves. 3. A flower opened. 4. A magnified stamen. 5. Germen magnified, with its membrane. 6. Half-ripe fruit of its natural size.

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