Empalement. Cup one leaf, coloured within; tube bell-shaped, ten-striped; border five-cleft, segments egg-shaped, smooth, very much spread, obtuse, two lengthened by a pointed end.
Blossom none.
Honey-cup, one leaf, conical, appearing cut off, ten-striped, nearly the length of the cup and fixed to it at the base of the border, obtusely from 10 to 18-toothed at the mouth.
Chives. Threads none. Tips from 10 to 18, oblong, upright, small, fixed to the teeth of honey-cup.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped. Shaft awl-shaped, upright, the length of the honey-cup. Summit headed, blunt.
Seed-vessel. Capsule roundish, four-furrowed, leathery, thick, one-celled, four valves.
Seeds many, nearly egg-shaped, blunt, marked with a small hole at the base, fixed to the valves, surrounded with a slight pulpy skin.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Samyda floribus roseis, dodecandris; foliis ovato-oblongis, serrulatis.
Samyda with rosy coloured flowers having twelve chives; leaves between egg-shaped and oblong, slightly sawed.