and that this was in the Temperate House, where it grows 
freely, and promises to form a large laurel-like shrub. 
_ Descr.—An evergreen shrub, or small tree, attaining 
thirty feet in height; branches terete, bark pale. Leaves 
four to five inches long, obovate-oblong, obtuse, quite 
entire, narrowed into a short stout petiole, coriaceous, 
bright green and glossy above, paler beneath ; midrib 
stout, lateral nerves slender ; stipules triangular, acuminate, 
brown. Panicle terminal, strict erect, subpyramidal, six 
inches high, and nearly as broad at the base ; rachis stout, 
and spreading or decurved opposite branches puberulous ; 
bracts very small, ovate, persistent ; pedicels one-sixth to 
one-fourth of an inch long, erect or ascending. Flowers 
erect. Caiyx small, pubescent; lobes erect, ovate, sub- 
acute, two longer than the others. Corolla an inch long, 
bright red; tube terete, slightly ventricose in the upper 
half, hairy below the middle within; lobes five, very 
small, triangular, recurved. Anthers sessile, inserted below 
the throat of the corolla, dorsally hirsute, bases bearded, 
connective apiculate. Disk small, tumid. Ovary 2-celled ; 
style long, slender, exserted, tip contracted acutely bifid. 
Fruit a smal 12-celled ovoid deeply grooved drupe, about 
a quarter of an inch long, with persistent calyx-lobes, of 
which two are produced into spathulately obovate coriaceous 
veined wings about an inch long.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, Section of corolla laid open ; 3 and 4, stamens; 
5, vertical section of ovary :—all enlarged ; 6, fruit of the natural size. 
