buds oblong, covered with scales. eaves shortly petioled, 
one-and-a-half to two-and a-half inches long, ovate, acumi- 
nate, trebly serrate with glandular teeth, ciliate, glabrous 
above, silky pubescent beneath, nerves very numerous ; sti- 
pules subulate, acute. Flowers terminal, solitary, one-and-a- 
half inches diameter ; peduncles short, much thickened up- 
wards after flowering. Calyx of four broad, ovate, acute, 
serrate green sepals, subtended by as many short, subulate, 
alternating bracts. Petals nearly orbicular, white; stamens 
very numerous; filaments slender; anthers small, broad. 
Disk forming four silky, fleshy lobes, concealing the carpels. 
Ovary of two to four cohering carpels, with slender styles, 
obtuse stigmas, and two pendulous ovules in each carpel. 
Fruit of two to four single-seeded, subglobose, dry, black, 
5 
shining drupes. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous.—J/. D. H. 
_Fig. 1, Disk and styles; fig. 2, stamen; fig. 3, bases of carpels; fig. 4, 
ripe drupe :—all but fig. 4 magnified. 
