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branches, leaves, and flowers are beautiful microscopic 
objects. The fruit is very ornamental. 
Descr.—A shrub, or small, ramous, thornless tree ; 
branches covered with grey brown bark ; branchlets, leaves 
beneath, inflorescence and fruit silvery white, with a 
dense clothing of lepidote scales, branchlets speckled with 
red-brown. Leaves three to four inches long, shortly 
petioled, ovate, obtuse, deep green above, and sparsely 
lepidote, midrib and six pairs of nerves beneath red brown, 
as are their undulate margins ; petiole stout, about half an 
inch long. Flowers very many, in axillary clusters, nod- 
ding and drooping; pedicels slender, about three-quarters 
of an inch long, with small, brown, linear bud-scales at the 
base. Perianth two-thirds of an inch long, tube se 
ellipsoid, suddenly dilated into a campanulate limb, whic 
is cleft about halfway up into four triangular-ovate, obtuse 
lobes, pubescent on their inner faces. Anthers small, oblong. 
Style slender, stigma elongated, obtuse, recurved. /ruit 
two-thirds of an inch long, ellipsoid, bright rose-red, lepi- 
dote, crowned with the persistent withered limb of the | : 
perianth.—J, D. H. , 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, half of the perianth viewed from within; 3, stigma and 
portion of style; 4, ripe fruit ; 5, lepidote scales :—All but fig. 4 enlarged. 
