Branches thornless, smooth, weak, filiform, reddened 



at one side. 



Leaves erect, twice the length of the inter- 



nodes or intervals; stipule's linear, distinct from the petiole, 

 quickly deciduous, scantily glandular 



at the edge, fringed 

 with simple jointless hairs ; petioles naked, or now and then 

 furred, thornless; leaflets 1-5, flat, oblong-lanceolate, ob- 

 tuse, generally undulate, simply serrate, quite smooth on 

 both sides, except at the base of the midrib, where they are 

 thickly furred: lateral ones sessile, a little slanted at the 

 base; terminal one pedicled. Flowers nodding, terminal by 

 3-5-flowered umbels, whitish, diffusing a mild but exceed- 

 ingly grateful fragrance; bractes very small, withering rapidly 

 and falling off; peduncles quite smooth, very slender, but 

 little thickened towards the calyx; tube of the calyx smooth, 

 depressedly globular, green on one side, reddened on the 

 other, leaflets ovate pointedly tipped, all simple, smooth 

 on the outside, thickly tomentose on the inside, twice 

 shorter than the petals ; petals emarginate, entire, outer a 

 little recurved; the stamens and the apex of the receptacle 

 of the petals grow out into petals and form the double 

 ower; germens many, one-styled, one side (the inner) 

 flat, nearly smooth, the other convex and very densely 

 furred with long simple hairs, ovulum appended by the 

 inner side, with one only conspicuous point of annexation ; 

 styles free, close-haired, thickened upward, protruding but 

 little beyond the tube : stigma flat, thickened. 



We are obliged to Mr. Lindley for the excellent descrip- 

 tion, of which the above is the enerlish version. 



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