on differences in their villosity and glandularness, and on the 
size and shape of the petals; all characters far too variable 
for specific purposes. 
- Descr. A small ¢ree or bush, not exceeding thirty feet high, 
with spreading branches ; branchlets, leaves beneath, petioles, 
and peduncles clothed with soft tomentum, and hairs which 
are often glandular. eaves distichous, shortly petioled, 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, rather irregularly  serrate- 
toothed, slightly pubescent above, white and densely velvety- 
tomentose beneath, triple-nerved at the very obliquely cor- | 4 
date base, of which the upper lobe is produced and rounded; 
petioles a quarter to half an inch long. Stipules very slender, 
as long as the petioles, caducous. Flowers fascicled in the 
axils of the leaves, three-quarters to one and a quarter inches 
in diameter, white with yellow anthers; peduncles much ex- : 
ceeding the petioles. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, green, pubes- 
cent, ending in a setaceous soft point. Pefals five to seven, 
longer than the sepals, broadly obovate, variable in breadth 
and length. Torus hairy. Stamens erect, filaments slender ; 
anthers small, yellow. Ovary shortly stipitate, elliptic, cou- 
tracted into a very short, stout style, 3-6-celled; stigma 
shortly conical, lobed; ovules: very minute, crowded upon 
pendulous placentas. Berry small, globose. Seeds minute, 
buried in pulp.——/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Torus and ovary ; 2, vertical and 3, transverse section of ovary; 4, 
young fruit :—all but jig. 4 magnified. : 
