It is probably one of Dr. Asa Gray’s seed contributions to 
the Royal Gardens. 
Deser.—A much-branched shrub, two to six feet high; 
bark grey; branchlets short, rigid. Leaves one to two 
inches long, obovate-oblong, or narrowly oblanceolate, 
acute, obtuse, or apiculate, narrowed into a very short 
petiole, quite entire, or rarely sparingly toothed towards 
the tip, silkily pubescent, at length glabrescent. [lowers 
three-quarters of an inch diam., erect, in small, subsessile, 
erect, branched corymbs ; pedicels rather stout, one-fourth 
to one half in. long, with one or two small linear bracts. 
Calyx-tube shortly cylindric or subcampanulate, silky ; 
teeth narrow, erect, shorter than the tube, persistent. 
Petals orbicular, spreading, white, with a rose-colrd. disk. 
Stamens many, as long as the petals; anthers broadly 
oblong, yellow. Ovary 2- or incompletely 4-celled; styles 
2-3, long, silky; stigmas capitate. Berry pendulous, half 
an inch diam., globose, fleshy. Seeds compressed, acutely 
margined.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed; 2, base of calyx and _ styles; 
_ 8, vertical section of ovary; 4, fruit :—All but fig. 4 enlarged. 
