flowered in August, 1869. Its native name is Copecillo 

 odoroso. 



Descr. A small bushy tree, twenty to twenty-five feet 

 high. Branches nearly terete. Leaves three to five inches long, 

 by one to two inches broad, obovate-cuneate, or oblanceolate- 

 cuneate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a distinct stout 

 petiole, a quarter to half an inch long, uniformly green 

 and smooth on both surfaces ; midrib distinct when dry, when 

 also the nerves appear as faint, close-set streaks. Flowers 

 usually two to three, pedicelled on a short stout cylindric 

 peduncle, one inch and a half diameter, much like those of a 

 dog-rose, pale rose-red, odorous ; bracts and bracteoles not 

 broader than the peduncle and pedicel, rounded, compressed. 

 Sepals four to five, orbicular, concave, half as long as the 

 petals. Petals broad, orbicular-obovate, or almost obcordate, 

 concave below the middle. Staminal cup half embracing the 

 ovary. Ovary green, with a sessile five to eight-lobed stigma. 

 Capsule five to eight-lobed ; valves narrow, recurved. Seeds 

 with a fleshy red aril.—/. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Staminal cup and ovary; 2, vertical section of ditto : 3, transverse 

 section of ovary ; 4, ripe capsule burst open '.—all but f. 4 magnified. 



