Monte Video plant in the Botanical Register, depends for its dis- 
tinctive characters on its absence of viscidity, terete branches, 
larger fruit, more corymbose inflorescence, and longer calycine 
teeth ; but these characters all seem to break down; Lindley 
himself describes the leaves of the E. montevidensis as covered 
with resinous dots beneath; the branches of E. floribunda are 
quite round, its fruit varies in size, as do its corymbs, and the 
calyx-teeth are identical in the two plants. The name of 
L. bifida was given to a state with leaves accidentally 
notched at the point. Both 2. floribunda and montevidensis 
are cultivated in the open air at Kew, against a wall; of 
these the former was received from Messrs. Smith, of 
Worcester, and has been out for two years; the latter has 
been for many years in cultivation, but does not flower so 
freely : both flower in August. 
Descr. A leafy evergreen bush or small tree, with suberect 
cylindric branches, and rather viscid young branches and 
leaves. Leaves two and a half to four inches long, elliptic 
or linear- or obovate-oblong, obtuse, rarely acute, narrowed 
into a slender petiole which varies from one quarter to three 
quarters of an inch long, margin minutely crenulate, dark 
green above, paler beneath with close reticulations and 
resinous dots or sometimes minute scurfy resinous points. 
Cymes terminal, pyramidal, much branched, three to five 
inches long and broad, leafy below; bracts 0 or small and 
linear; pedicels slender, one-sixth to one quarter of an inch long. 
Flowers one half inch in diameter, white. Calyz-tube broadly 
obconic, limb with five broadly triangular teeth. Petals 
obovate-spathulate, concave, obtuse. Filaments stout, equalling 
the petals. Style as long as the stamen, stigma capitate.— 
J.D. H. ates 
Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower ; 2, transverse section of ovary :—both enlarged. 
