Descr. Our plant is nearly four feet high, much branched, 
with opposite and more or less spreading branches, which are 
terete, glabrous, studded at the nodes with two to four large, 
brown, ovate, acute, warty excrescences. Leaves opposite, and 
generally bearing a fascicle of young leaves in their axils, oval 
or cuneate, or orbicular-cuneate, or quite orbicular, almost sessile, 
very entire or more or less dentate, coriaceous, dark green, per- 
sistent, quite glabrous and glossy, and obscurely penninerved 
above, paler beneath, strongly penninerved and reticulated, the 
areolee of the compact reticulations minutely villous. Corymé 
from the apex of small lateral branches: the rachis elongated, 
fleshy, indented as it were to receive the pedicels. FYowers pale 
purplish-blue. Calyx of five erecto-connivent ovate segments. 
Pedicels unguiculate ; the damina cucullate. Stamens five: fila- 
ments subulate, nearly erect, opposite the petals. Ovary sunk 
in a fleshy disc, and surmounted by five lobes. Style thick. 
Stigmas three, capitate. Fruit in Mr. Nuttall’s specimens as 
large as a small pea. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a branch with leaves, showing the warts. 2. Flower. 3. 
Immersed ovary :—maynified. 
