Leaves somewhat crowded, petioled, leathery, shining, 
ovate-orbicular or ovate-elliptic, three quarters to an inch 
and three-quarters long, two-thirds to an inch and one- 
third broad, rounded at apex and base, shortly toothed 
or rarely slightly lobed above the middle, sometimes 
sparingly pilose on the under side at the base; petioles a 
sixth to a half inch long, slender, shortly pilose. Iacemes 
terminal, corymb-like, an inch to an inch and a quarter 
long, loosely-flowered, shortly pilose; bracts and bracteoles 
scarious, caducous; pedicels slender, about a third of an 
inch long. Calye rose-coloured; tube about a tenth 
of an inch long, at first top-shaped, afterwards ellipsoid, 
sparingly pi'ose at the base; limb spreading ; lobes sub- 
orbicular, about a twelfth of an inch in diameter. Petals 
very small, greenish, broadly obovate or subquadrate. 
Stamens five, shorter than the calyx-lobes, inserted with 
the petals on the margin of a broad flat disk. Style some- 
what shorter than the stamens, bifid. Berries red, 
ellipsoid, about a quarter of an inch long and a sixth of an 
inch broad, sparingly resin-dotted.—S. A. SKAN. : 
Fig. 1, portion of a leaf showing the under side; ?, flowers; 3, pistil:—all 
enlarged. 
