shoots, with scaly or stipulated branches, in a somewhat whorled 
manner, which however detract from the beauty and compactness 
of the heads of flowers. 
Descr. Our plant forms a shrué about three feet high, with 
rather patent, stout, terete branches, the young ones scaly. 
Leaves three to five inches long, firm, rigid, coriaceous, ovate, 
oblong or somewhat elliptical, dark glossy green, penninerved, 
obtuse at the base, very acute at the point, glaucous beneath in 
the young leaves, ferruginous in the older ones, with imnumera- 
ble, orbicular, peltate scales: a few of these scales are found on 
the veins above. Petiole from half to three-quarters of an inch 
long, very stout, brownish-green. Corymé of from four to five 
flowers ; dracteal scales large, ovate, concave, membranaceous, 
deciduous. Peduncles short, scaly. Calyx very scaly, short, 
five-lobed ; Jobes rounded, equal or nearly so. Corolla about 
three inches long, and as much broad at the limb, pure white, 
slightly tinged with yellow-green, tubuloso-campanulate, some- 
what ringent, deeply five-lobed, the two lower segments more 
deeply cleft; the /odes large, spreading, a little waved, and 
acute. Stamens shorter than the corolla, eighteen to twenty ; 
_ filaments quite glabrous. Anthers purple-brown, oblong. Ovary 
on a fleshy dise or ring, ovate, very scaly (as is the long séy/e), 
ten or more celled. Stigma broad peltate, two-lobed. 
Fig. 1. Portion of the under side of a leaf, with its scales. 2. Stamen. 
3. Calyx and pistil. 4. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. 
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