or subopposite, oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into short 
thick petiole, green and glistening above from the cellular 
surface, paler beneath. Flowers three to four on each 
flowering stem, very irregularly placed towards its ascend- 
ing apex, two inches in diameter, pearly-white ; pedicels 
very variable in length, one to three inches. Calyz of 
two rounded sepals, connate to the middle, the free part 
denticulate. Petals ten, linear-oblong or obovate, obtuse, 
somewhat recurved. Stamens not very numerous; fila- 
ments slender, connate in a ring at the base of the corolla; 
anthers small, linear-oblong. Ovary obovoid ; style short, 
with five stigmatic erect branches. Seeds on a free basilar 
placenta, smooth, estrophiolate—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx with ovary; 2, stamens; 3, dorsal view of an anther; 4, ovary; 
5, young seeds on placenta; 6, young seed :—all enlarged. 
