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Female flowers: tepals 2, c. 7 mm. long, pale pink, sub-orbicular; styles divided to c. 1/2 their length, the branches stigmatic, almost straight; ovary c. 1 cm. long, fusiform, not winged, tapering into a narrow stipe c. 1 cm. long; placentae bipartite.
Flowers in axillary cymes with 2 dichasia; peduncles 15–30 mm. long; primary dichasial branches 2–8 mm. long.
More or less erect succulent herb, 1–2 ft. high, with long woody rootstock, older plants straggling
Male flowers: tepals 2, c. 9 mm. long, pale pink, suborbicular; filaments c. 1 mm. long.
Fruit a berry 20–30 × 8–12 mm., ellipsoid, stipe 10–22 mm. long.
Stems glabrous, ascending, unbranched, rooting at lower nodes.
Fruits green with pink veins and white spots.
Bracts like stipules but very soon caducous.
Flowers pale pink with darker veins
Plants 19–55 cm. tall, annual.
Leaves purplish beneath
Stems tinged pink
