According to the authors of Linnaean classifications, 

 Blackwellia belongs to Dodecandria Pentagynia ; but this 

 species IS Hexandrous and Tetragynous ! 



An erect shrub, with taper, ash-coloured branches, the 



being downy. Leaves flat, oval, obtuse, or 



their rib downy beneath; 

 illary, erect, shorter than 



young ones 



acute, toothletted, smooth^ 



stipulce deciduous. Racemes 



the leaf. Calyx turbinate, hairy, with a 6-deft limb, the 

 segments of which are glandular at the base. Petals 6. 



rather larg 



Stamens 6, 



pposite the petals. O 



celled, half superior, with four parietal placentae ; styles 

 smooth, hairy at the base. 



J. L. 



