stem scarcely climbing; leaves subsessile, lanceolate-linear, obtuse, distantly repand, glabrous, glaucous, semi-complicate, reticulated, having two large glands at the apex of the petiole, and one beneath each of the marginal inæqualities. Stem about 2 feet high. Leaves of tender substance but thickish (much of the substance of a cabbage-leaf) subglaucous, elongate-lanceolate, the margins repand and reddish. Peduncles axillary, cirrhose. Flowers polygamous, ochraceous. Calyx tubular, 5-cleft. Petals 5, small, lanceolate, inserted between the divisions of the calyx. Filaments 5, inserted near the bottom of the calyx; anthers linear. Ovary stipitate; style very short; stigma lacero-capitate. Capsule 1-celled, ovate, inflated, 3–6-seeded, 3-valved, purple-rosy. Seeds ovate, inclosed in a scarlet arillus. Such is Burchell's account. The specimen in Herb. Hook. above referred to, and which alone I have seen, is in fruit only, but in foliage and other characters it so nearly agrees with Burchell's description that I feel little doubt of its identity with his plant. By the description of the flower, as given by Burchell, I cannot see how this species differs generically from Modecca: it probably belongs, as does the following, to the subgenus Blepharanthes.
