Mr. Brown observes, and would rest the chief distinction 
on the more slender, less tortuous, branches of E. micro- 
phylla, the hairiness of the young shoots, the shortness of 
the peduncles in relation to the leaves, and in the pseudo- 
spikes being collected nearer the extremities of the 
branches. 
Descr. Shrub erect; branches ascending, slender, tor- 
tuous, hairy. Leaves cordate, spreading, shining, rigid, 
sides folded forwards, base embracing the stem, middle 
bent back, apex ascending, acute. Flowers white, solitary 
in the axils of the leaves, collected into subterminal pseudo- 
spikes, on peduncles shorter than the leaves. Calyx-leaflets 
oblong, blunt, white. Corolla white; tube campanulate, 
equal to the calyx, nectariferous; limb five-parted, seg- 
ments ovate, blunt, spreading. Stamens alternating with 
the segments of the corolla. Filaments adhering to the 
tube, the free portion erect, shorter than the limb. Anthers 
bilocular, bursting along the face. Germen spheroid, with 
a short style rising from the depressed apex, and supporting 
a stigma of five erect, blunt lobes. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Portion of Stamens and Leaves. 2. Single Leaf. 3. 4. Flow- 
ers: magnified. 
