of Cambridge, U.S., in 1879, and another from F. Miles, 
Esq., in 1881, the flowers from whose plant are here 
figured. : 
Descr. A slender shrub, with cylindric branches and 
very slender puberulous leafy branchlets. Leaves alternate, 
petioled, one and a half to three and a half inches long, 
membranous, pale green, ovate or oblong-ovate, acute 
or acuminate, usually doubly serrulate, puberulous with 
scattered hairs on both surfaces; nerves very slender; 
petiole slender, a quarter to half an inch long; stipules 
‘setaceous, free. Flowers one inch in diameter across 
the spreading stamens, in terminal sessile subpaniculate 
corymbs, peduncles and pedicels very slender. Calyx-tube 
very small; lobes five, half an inch long, oblong or obovate- 
oblong, deeply toothed, acute or obtuse, green, spreading, 
nerved, puberulous. Corolla none. Stamens very nume- 
rous, in many series, seated on a narrow disk; filaments 
straight, capillary, white; anthers very small, yellow. 
Carpels two to four, minute, globose, pubescent; style 
lateral, filiform, stigma obtuse—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Side branch with larger leaf; 2, flower with stamens removed; 3, top of 
filament and anther ; 4, carpel ; 5, vertical section of ditto :—all but fig. 1 enlarged. 
