Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, tubo supra basin inserta, inæqualia; duobus inferioribus brevioribus; duobus superioribus tubo breviora. Antheræ ovatæ, adnatæ.
Pistillum. Germen superum. Stylus filiformis, tubo paullo brevior, erectus. Stigma bilobum.
Pericarpium. Capsula globosa, rostrata, glabra, bilocularis, longitudinaliter dehiscens; rostrum compressum, sulcatum, lineare, obtusum; dissepimentum obovatum, emarginatum, sub apice foramine perforatum, lateribus membranaceum, persistens.
Semina in singulo loculamento bina, reniformia, rugosa, hinc convexa, inde concava sulco longitudinali.
Empalement. Cup double; the outer one two-leaved; leaflets egg-shaped and concave, nearly the length of the tube; the inner one-leaved, many divisions, the segments about twelve, awl-shaped, thrice as short as the outer cup.
Blossom, one petal; tube widening gradually; border five-cleft; segments equal, egg-shaped, very blunt, three times as short as the tube.
Chives. Four threads, fixed into the lower part of the tube, unequal; the two lower-most the shortest; the two uppermost shorter than the tube. Tips egg-shape, pressed to the threads.
Pointal. Seed-bud above. Shaft thread-shape, a little shorter than the tube, and upright. Summit two lobed.
Seed-vessel globular, beaked, smooth, two celled, and splits longitudinally; beak flattened, awl-shaped, linear, and blunt; partition inversely egg-shaped, notched at the end, pierced with a hole at the top, skinny at the edges, and remaining.
Seeds two in each cell, kidney-shaped, rough, convex on one side, and concave on the other by a longitudinal furrow.