cent. Leaves thin, one and a half to two and a half inches 
long, broadly ovate, or almost orbicular in outline, acute, 
base truncate, margins cut into four to six triangular, 
coarsely-toothed, ovate lobes, dark green above, with as 
many sunk nerves as lobes, pale woolly, at length 
glabrate beneath; petiole one half to two-thirds ot 
an inch long, slender, reddish; stipules small, ovate, 
acute, deciduous. Corymbs terminal, lax-fld., tomentose ; 
rachis and long pedicels rose-pink, pedicels very slender, 
an inch to an inch and a half long. Flowers nod- 
ding, nearly an inch in diameter. Calyzx-tube narrowly 
campanulate, produced much beyond the ovary; lobes 
lanceolate, as long as the tube, reflexed, at length deci- 
duous. Petals inserted in the mouth of the calyx, orbi- 
cular, notched at the tip, pure white, spreading. Stamens 
ten to twenty, filaments glabrous. Styles four or five, 
elongate, villous, united at the base; stigmas capitate. 
Berry half an inch long, broadly ellipsoid, or elliptic- 
oblong, red.— J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed ; 2, vertical section of ovary :—both 
enlarged ; 3, berries of the natural size. 
