Raritebe Wernham

bracts subulate, tending to persist, the bracteoles affixed to the base of the ped-icels. Flowers with the hypanthium short, the calycine cup reduced, the teeth 4-5; corolla with the tube narrowly cylindrical, the lobes valvate, shorter than the tube, reflexed and contorted after anthesis; stamens 4-5, the anthers narrow, the filaments short, affixed to the base of the tube; ovary 2-celled (or rarely 1-celled), the placentas adnate peltately to the median septum, or when uniloculate each placenta arising from the base of the ovary and then splitting, the ovules numer-ous. Fruits coccoid and baccate, small; seeds numerous, rotund, foveolate.