same indefatigable correspondent of the Society, render its 
history tolerably complete. 
“ The branches appear to be fragments of an evergreen 
tree; they are slender, rounded, and smooth. The nascent 
gemme are covered with a dense rufous pubescence. The 
leaves are alternate, becoming towards the extremities of 
the branches opposite by approximation; their form is 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, and in size they vary from 
three inches to nearly six in length; the surface, even of 
the youngest, is perfectly smooth on each side ; their veins 
are inconspicuous, the lowest pair of vene primarie being 
divergent at an angle of about 40°, while the others spread 
outwards at an angle of 55° or 60°; the vene arcuate and 
externe are obscurely seen, but form together a number 
of rhomboidal spaces, equal in diameter to nearly one-third 
of each side of the leaf; the proportion borne by the petiole 
to the lamina is variable, sometimes equalling one-fourth 
of the length of the latter, and not unfrequently being less 
than one-sixth of its length; this proportion not depending 
upon the station of the leaves: the petiole is smooth, half 
round, and thickened at the extremity, where it unites 
with the lamina. Stipul@ are none. The flowers are 
greenish white, in terminal thyrsoid compound racemes; 
the upper part of the rachis, and of its branches, is slightly 
protected by stellate pubescence; the pedicels are closely 
covered with pubescence of the same nature, and have 
one subulate downy deciduous bracteola at the base, and 
another towards the apex. The calywis inferior, campanu- 
late, tapering a little towards the base, densely clothed 
with stellate pubescence, bursting irregularly at the apex 
into four or five ovate teeth, which are somewhat imbri- 
cated during estivation, but which are separated by the 
growth of the petals long before the expansion of the 
flower; the veins of the calyx are remarkably reticulated, 
and when cut, a considerable quantity of mucilaginous 
viscid fluid is exuded. The petals are whitish green, hypo- 
gynous, with a convolute «estivation; their ungues are 
spatulate, and as long as the calyx; their amine oblong, 
spreading, flat, and then overlapping each other at the base; 
at the point of separation of the unguis and lamina is a 
small callus, and on each side a notch upon the margin. 
The stamens are seated upon a long, filiform, subclavate, 
smooth torus; the filaments are consolidated into a capitate 
