‘and thrives best in a well-drained loam of moderate 
richness. In habit it differs from many of its congeners 
in forming a distinct stem which gives the plant the 
appearance of a miniature tree. Botanically 7. aureum is 
most nearly related to H. myrtifolium, Lam., another North 
American species which has 3 styles and a I-celled ovary, 
as well as foliaceous sepals. But from H. myrtifolium our 
plant is readily distinguished by its narrow in place of 
cordate leaf bases, 
Description,— Undershrub, widely oranched above, 2-4 ft. 
high; branches and twigs narrowly 2-winged, the wings 
decurrent from the leaf-bases to the node next below, with 
two faint intermediate wings prolonged somewhat further 
down. Leaves oblong, rounded or blunt, and more or less 
apiculate at the tip, narrowed to the base, 14-3 in. long, 
%-% in. wide, thinly leathery, gland-dotted, glaucescent 
beneath ; petioles very short. Cymes 3-flowered, forming a 
leafy panicle, with at times solitary flowers situated in the 
same axils as, but below the cyme-peduncles; bracts leafy. 
Sepals leafy, elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblong, apiculate, 
gland-dotted, very unequal, the 3 outer 1 in. long, the 
2 inner } in. long. Petals yellow, somewhat deflexed, 
obliquely obovate, 3 in. long. Stamens very many, 2 in. 
long, orange-yellow ; anthers dorsifixed, connective glandu- 
liferous. Ovary narrow ovoid, entire, 1-celled ; placentas 3, 
parietal, far-intruded ; ovules very many ; styles 3, at first 
closely adpressed, at length diverging. Capsule ovoid-conic, 
entire, 4—} in. long. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2 and 3, anthers :—all enlarged. 
