Branches terete, young clothed with lepidote scales. Leaves 
opposite, membranous, three to five inches long, variable 
in form, usually oblong, obtuse acute or acuminate, glabrous 
_ above, beneath covered with minute pale pits, and clothed 
with scales when young; petiole very short. Racemes spread- 
ing or refracted, four to five inches long, on short stout pe- 
duncles, axillary, simple, solitary ; rhachis, pedicels, and calyx. 
densely covered with lepidote scales. Flowers densely 
crowded, secund. Calyx green, one-third to half an inch long ; 
tube slender, tetragonous; limb campanulate, four-lobed ; 
lobes short, acute. Petals very minute, obovate, spathulate, 
acute. Stamens eight, three-quarters of an inch long, yellow, 
with orange anthers.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. 
