from their specimen we have been able to give the accompanying 
figure. 
Pastis Apparently a small shrwvé, flowering when less than a 
foot high. Branches clothed with a reddish-brown bark; the 
younger ones lepidote. Leaves rather copious, spreading, three 
- to four inches long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, on short lepidote 
petioles, pinnatedly veined, naked, glabrous, and dark green 
above ; beneath, thickly clothed with minute ferruginous scales, 
giving a rich rusty colour'to the whole underside of the foliage. 
Corymbs umbellate, terminal, shorter than the leaves. Pedicels 
an inch or an inch and a half long, lepidote. /V/owers small (for 
the genus). Calye minute and indistinct, of five (unequal) 
rounded lobes, scaly on the outside. Corolla broad-campanu- 
late, pale ochroleucous or cream-colour, its five lobes nearly equal, 
rounded, retuse. Stamens ten, scarcely longer than the tubular 
portion of the corolla. Fi/aments slightly hairy at the base, 
sometimes bearing one or two spiniform teeth. Ovary very le- 
pidote, furrowed, elliptical, five-celled, seated on a large fleshy 
lobed disc. Style shorter than the stamens. Stigma a little di- 
lated and bearing five erect points or small lobes. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamens, one of them with spiniform teeth. 3. Pistil 
and fleshy hypogynous disc. 4. Transverse section of the ovary :—magnified. 
