Semen unicum, ovatum.
Empalement. Cup one leaf, funnel-shaped and coloured; tube thread-shaped, very long; border of four segments, which are flat.
Blossom. Petals four, sitting close to the cup, flat, shorter than the cup, and fixed within it.
Chives. Threads eight, awn-like, upright, scarcely the length of the flower. Tips simple.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, fixed into the side of the seed-bud, and of the length of the chives. Summit headed, and hairy.
Seed-vessel none. Fruit in the lower part of the cup.
Seed one, egg-shaped.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gnidia, foliis sparsis, lineari-subulatis; ramis verticillatis; floribus aggregatis, terminalibus.
Gnidia with scattered, linearly awl-shaped leaves; branches grow in whorls; the flowers terminating the branches in clusters.