brandies covered with dark brown bark. Leaves one to 

 two inches long"; oblong or elliptic, acute or sub-acute, 

 base cuneate, dark green above, beneath more or less 

 silvery, with minute, white, waxy glands, which extend to 

 the pedicels of the flowers calyx and capsule ; petiole 

 about a sixth of an inch long. Flowers about half an inch 

 in diameter, white, in corymbose clusters of simple 

 racemes, one-half to one inch long. Brads one-tenth to 

 one-fourth of an inch lonoj, boat-shaped, red-brown, deci- 

 duous ; pedicels one-half to nearly one inch long, very 

 slender. Sepals 5, small, oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Petals 

 spathulately oblong, concave, ciliate above the middle, 

 punctulate with glands. Stamens longer than the petals, 

 filaments slender, hairy towards the base, anthers oblong. 

 Ovary conical, densely clothed with white glands ; style 

 elongate, glabrous. Capsule one-fourth of an inch long, 

 oblong, retuse, puberulous and glandular. Seeds some- 

 what sickle-shaped, nucleus linear, surrounded by a 

 membranous wingr. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of tipper surface of leaf ; 2, flower ; 3, petal ; 4 and 5, stamens ; 

 6, pistil ; 7, portion of fruiting raceme ; 8, ripe capsule ; 9, seed :— All enlarged, 

 except fig. 7, which is of nat. size. 



