Semina numerosa, ovata, membranæ majori ovatæ ad basin insertæ, imbricata.
Empalement. Cup five-cleft, pointed, converging, very small.
Blossom one-petal, funnel-shaped; tube cylindrical, long, bellied out at the base and top, border five-parted, flat; segments lance-shaped, oblique.
Chives. Threads five, very small from the middle of the tube. Tips converging, terminated by a long thread.
Pointal. Seed-buds two, with lateral appendages. Shaft cylindrical. Summit headed, pointed at top, and two-cleft.
Seed-vessel. Seed-pods two, horizontally reflexed, oblong, sending forth a lobe each way near the side of the base, one-celled, one-valved.
Seeds numerous, egg-shaped, inserted on the larger egg-shaped membrane at the base, tiled.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Cameraria foliis ovatis, nitidis, acuminatis, parallelo-costatis; floribus corymbosis, terminalibus.
Bastard Mangeneel with egg-shaped leaves, shining, tapered, and ribbed transversely; flowers grow in broad-topped spikes, terminal.