to two hundred and fifty feet in the low levels ; bark rather 
rough, flakeing. Leaves or young plants opposite, sessile, 
ovate, very glaucous ; on old plants petioled, ovate-oblong 
to lanceolate, three inches to four inches long, acute, 
coriaceous, pale green on both surfaces; base acute, with 
the sides equal, or nearly so; nerves and oil glands very 
obscure. Peduncles solitary, axillary, short, stout, sub- 
terete, one- to three-flowered in the mountain form, 
longer, and four- to ten-flowered in the lowland. Calya- 
tube urn-shaped, turbinate or obovoid, tapering at the 
base, one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long. Oper- 
culum much shorter than the calyx-tube, hemispheric 
or conical and umbonate. /ilaments about as long as 
the calyx-tube, inflexed in bud; anthers short, with long 
slits. Style short. Capsule pyriform, terete ; mouth trun- 
cate, slightly constricted, margins acute; three- to five- 
celled; valves short, deltoid, incurved. Seeds inappendi- 
culate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1 and 2, calycine cup and operculum: enlarged; 3, umbel with 
unexpanded flowers, and 4, with expanded flowers of var. elata, of nat. size. 
