our specimen inclined with pendulous secund flowers, as 
in the description and plate of Siebold and Zucearini. 
A shrub or small tree; branches slender and leaves 
beneath covered with stellate down. Leaves of two forms, 
the larger orbicular or orbicular-oblong, six to ten inches 
in diameter, coarsely sinuate-toothed above the middle, 
denticulate towards the base, petiole one inch; the smaller 
more shortly petioled, two to four inches long, broadly 
oblong, green above, nearly white beneath, with often red- 
brown hairs on the nerves. Racemes terminal, four to 
seven inches long, very shortly peduncled, laxly many- 
flowered; bracts small, caducous; pedicels half an inch 
long. Flowers snow-white, secund, drooping, about one 
and a half inches broad. Calyz subcampanulate, green, 
terete, minutely rather unequally five-toothed, stellately 
downy. Petals oblong, obtuse, concave, strongly imbricate. 
-Stamen united in a tube at the base with the petals, 
glabrous; anthers as long as the filaments or shorter. 
Ovary partly superior, tip hemispheric, puberulous ; style 
filiform; stigma simple. Capsule one inch long, ovoid, | 
crustaceous, bursting from the base upwards, girt below by 
the enlarged calyx. Seed ellipsoid.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, flower laid open; 3 and 4, stamens ; 5, ovary with 
part of the calyx removed; 6, fruit :—a/J but f. 6 enlarged. 
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