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round it in tlie manner of an involucre till it decavi 



The 



species 



ly one of the genus 



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the same natural 



order as the Coninion Meiereon and the Spurge-Laurel of 

 pur own country; of which the co-ordinates seem universally 

 distinguished by the toughness of the wood. The present 

 plant requires to be cultivated in bog-earth, and flowers 

 about March or April. 



A deciduous upright corymbosely branching shinib, sel- 

 dom exceeding the height of four or five feet, branches nu- 

 merous with a pale brown very smooth bark, somewhat 

 •tumid at their insertion, and looking as if one was let into 

 the socket of the other. Buds floml, terminal and lateral; 

 scales whitish yellow, a little more than half an inch long, 

 equal to or even longer than the inflorescence, membranous, 

 oblong, obtuse, veined, smooth within, sericeously furred 

 •without by a brownish pubescence. Flowers* temately 

 fascicled, a fascicle dependent fi-om the side, of every bud, 

 whitish yellow; peduncles very short, ,round, thickish, di- 

 viding into three one-fLowtved pedieks connected with the 

 flower by a joint. Calysif none. Corolla membranous, 

 inferior, less than one third of an inch in length, funnel- 

 form j ?at«? campanulate; limb nearly obsolete, somewhat 

 slanted, indentedly lobed, lobes rounded. Stamens pro- 

 truding beyond the corolla, inserted at the mouth of the 

 tube, which is about the length of the faux and linab to- 

 gether: anthers upright, terminal, short, adnately equitant 

 at the apex of the filament: ^o//e« granular, grumous, 

 . sometimes sulphur-coloured, sometinies of as deep a yellow 

 ■ as that of the yolk of an egg. Germen green, smooth, 

 ovately elliptical, one-celled, one-seeded: style longer than 

 the stamens, setiform, white like the filaments, assurgent 



and variously inflectent towards the top : stigma a simple 

 point. Leaves lanceolately oval, rather tender, pointed, 



viHous maderneatb> narrowe4 fiirthef downwards , than up 

 wards. 



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Brames, and Milne, Fulham. 



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