three organs as sepals, and. the innermost four or five as 
staminal appendages. 
Descr. A small or large tree, fifty feet high, branched from 
the base, glabrous throughout; branches terete; bark aromatic. 
Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, four to five inches long, 
oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, subacute or obtuse, 
base rounded or acute, often very unequal-sided, one side 
bulging out above the middle, coriaceous, covered with pellucid 
dots, margins recurved, nerves 10-12 pairs, very slender, 
reticulations delicate ; petioles one quarter inch to one-third - 
inch. Cymes axillary, very shortly peduncled, 6-8-flowered, 
quite glabrous. lowers shortly pedicelled, one-third inch in 
diameter, orange-red, pedicels short, bracts at their bases 
deciduous. Bracteoles (or sepals) three, orbicular, green, 
ciliolate. Sepals (or petals) five, erect with recurved rounded 
tips, oblong-ovate, red. Pe/als (or staminal scales), four or five, 
erect, linear-oblong, unequal. Staminal column cylindric, 
5-lobed at the apex ; anthers sixteen to twenty, linear. Ovary 
seated in a cupular disk, obtusely 3-gonous, ovoid-oblong, 
obscurely contracted into a columnar style whose rounded 
apex is divided into three to five minute stigmatic lobes. 
Berry ovoid, half an inch long, many-seeded. Seeds ovoid, 
testa brown shining, albumen fleshy and oily; embryo 
linear.— J. D. H. : 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, the same with bracts and three sepals removed ; 3 sta- 
minal column; 4, portion of do, ; 5, disk and ovary; 6, transverse section of 
ovary :—all magnified. 
