shapely little shrubs, some of which flowered freely for the 
first time in April 1911. 
Description.— Shrub, 24 ft. high; branches virgate, 
thinly pubescent, densely leafy. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 
somewhat bluntly acuminate, narrowed at the base into a 
very short petiole, 3-3 in. or, in wild plants, sometimes over 
1 in. long, 1-14 lin. wide, rigid, inconspicuously veined. 
Flowers solitary in the leaf-axils, usually some distance 
below the tips of the twigs, and thus simulating a leafy 
many-flowered raceme with a barren apex; pedicels slender, 
bracteate, 4-5 lin. long, thinly puberulous; bracts 12-16 
to a pedicel uniformly disposed throughout its extent but 
increasing in size upwards; the lowest ovate-oblong, those 
above lanceolate, the uppermost acuminate and resembling 
the sepals but rather smaller. Sepals persistent, narrow 
lanceolate, acuminate, 23-3 lin. long, pale green with 
narrow white margins. Corolla subrotate, almost 1 in. 
across, milky-white; tube barely 4 lin. long; segments 
ovate, subacute, 3 lin. long, 1-13 lin. wide. Filaments 
under 1 lin. long, finely papillose, anthers subequal, 1-locular, 
dehiscing from the tip by a single chink. Disk obsolete. 
Ovary glabrous; style under 2 lin. long, filiform ; stigma 
hardly wider than the style. Capsule, in wild specimens, 
globose, 1 lin. across, opening luculicidally. Seeds obliquely 
ovoid, very small, 
Fig. 1, leaves; 2, bracts and flower; 3, corolla, laid open; 4 and 5, anthers; 
6, transverse section of an anther; 7, pistil; 8, transverse section of an ovary ; 
9, vertical section of an ovary; 10, fruit; 11, fruit, two sepals removed ; 
12, seed :— all enlarged except 10, which is of natural size. 
