Reeve, Esq. Its habit is that of Paitapexpnus ; its foliage 
and its flowers similar, and so hardy, that it bears the cli- 
mate of the West of Scotland, unharmed. T'Hunzere tells 
us, that the leaves are used for polishing hard substances, 
and Kzmrrerr, that the wood is employed in cabinet-work. 
Descr. Shrub four to six feet high, with copious, oppo- 
site, slender, branches, clothed with a pale brown bark, and 
leaves, which are also opposite, on short petioles, ovate, 
acute, or rather acuminate, roughish, serrated, veined ina 
pinnated manner, pale beneath. Flowers moderately large, 
white, in terminal racemes. Pedicels opposite, sometimes 
bearing two flowers. Calyx of five deep segments, the tube 
globose, adnate. with the ovary. Corolla of five, nearly 
erect, oblongo-lanceolate, acute petals. Stamens ten, I- 
serted at the base of the calycine segments, on the outside 
of an orange-coloured, fleshy disk or ring. Filaments erect, 
alternately shorter, all of them broad, linear, petaloid, 
three-toothed at the top, the middle tooth bearing the some- 
what globose, two-celled anther, the lateral ones spreading. 
Ovary three-celled; ovules upon large, central, globose, 
fleshy, receptacles or placente. Styles three, filiform, longet 
than the stamens. Stigmas club-shaped. ; 
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Fig. 1. Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil. 2. Calyx and Pistil: the Ovary 
being cut through vertically :—magnified. 
