rounded, greenish-brown. Leaves opposite, petiolate, large, five 
to six inches long, cordato-ovate, moderately acuminate, firm in 
texture, bright full shining green .on both sides, but rather paler 
beneath, slightly rough on the upper surface to the touch, scarcely 
so to the naked eye, fragrant when bruised, as are the branches 
afid every part of the wood. Peduncles elongated, thickened up- 
wards and there bracteated, with subulate dracteoles, terminal, 
and there often ternate, or in the forking of a branch; or rarely 
lateral, from the upper leaves. owers scentless, large, more 
than three inches across: sepals, which may be considered. to 
pass gradually into petals, all of the same uniform purplish but 
rather bright brick-colour, leathery, subspathulate, outer ones 
much reflected: the tips of all become tawny in age. Stamens 
densely crowded around the mouth of the calyx-tube. Filaments 
_ very short, dilated at the base. Anthers oblong, yellow, apiculate, » 
slightly villous, opening outwardly. Ovaries sunk into the bottom 
of the thick fleshy calyx-tube, as in Rosa. Pistil hairy: style 
filiform, glabrous. 
Fig. 1. Calyx-tube, from which the sepals and petals are removed, showing 
the stamens and tips of the styles. 2. The same cut open. 3. Stamen. 4. 
Pistil :—magnified. 
