scales. Leaves on rather short petioles, between oblong and 
ovate, sharply acuminated, coriaceous, 3-nerved, the nerves con- 
nected by many transverse veins ; the margin entire, the upper 
side dark green, glabrous. Panicle terminal, with many rather 
large white flowers. Calyx urceolate, slightly tuberculate, the 
limb cup-shaped, in our plant five short teeth or angles. Petals 
five, obovate, acute. Sfamens ten, curved, inclined to one side. 
Filaments subulate. Anther yellow, broad, subulate, compressed, 
about as long as the filaments. Ovary five-celled. Style shorter 
than the stamens, flexuous. Stigma obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil :—magnified. 
