of Gardens and Plantations of his day, and whose gardens. 
were first at Peckham and latterly near Hendon. 
L. buaifolium has long been cultivated at Kew, where it 
flowers in May and June. The specimen here figured was 
presented by Messrs. Little and Ballantyne, of Carlisle. 
Desor. A small rigid bush twelve to eighteen inches high, 
much branched, and copiously leafy. Leaves opposite and 
alternate, spreading and recurved, shortly petioled, about 
half an inch long, thickly coriaceous, ovate or obovate, obtuse, 
quite entire. Flowers very numerous, about a quarter of an — 
inch in diameter, in crowded terminal umbelliform corymbs, 
white with pink tips and backs to the petals; pedicels half 
an inch long, very slender, with minute bracts at their base. — 
Sepals lanceolate, acuminate. Petals nearly twice as long 
as the sepals, elliptic, subacute, concave, spreading. 
Stamens ten, filaments very slender, five of them as long as 
the petals, five longer; anthers small, red-brown, opening 
by slits. Disk crenate. Ovary ovoid, glandular; style 
short; stigma simple.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Front, and 2, back view of flower ; 3, flower cut open vertically ; 4, calyx 
and ovary ; 5, anthers; 6, stigma; 7, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
