by Me firs. Loddiges and Sons, under the name of arhoreum / 

 and we fee no reafon to doubt that it really is the arhoreum of 

 Miciiaux. The apparent difference in the characters feems 

 to arife from a different mode of conceiving the fame thing : 

 Dr. Solander confidering the peduncles, which grow fingly 

 from the axils of each leaf, as being folitary ; whilft Michaux 

 regards the flowering extremities of the branches as racemes, 

 and the leaves at the bafe of each pedicle as bra&es. 



According to the laft-mentioned author, this fpecies grows 

 into a tree fifteen or twenty feet high. With us it forms a 

 diffufe irregular fhrub, with red flexuofe branches. Leaves al- 

 ternate, elliptical, pointed, fhining on the upper fide and flightly 

 pubefcent underneath, margins recurved and befet here and 

 there with little glands, giving an obfoletely toothed appearance : 

 footftalks very fhort. Tafte of the leaves agreeably acid. The 

 flowers grow from the extreme branches on folitary filiform 

 peduncles curved at the point, one from the axil of each leaf, 

 alternate, yet looking all one way. Or, perhaps, thefe leaves 

 may as properly be confidered as bracles; though they differ 

 not from the other leaves on the fame branches. On the branches 

 without flowers the leaves are nearly twice the fize, but are in 

 other refpe£ls fimilar. Corollas campanulate with the lacinize 

 recurved at the point : in our fpecimen pure white. Stamens 

 included: Anthers two-awned. 



Native of North and South-Carolina ; and is confidered as 

 hardy, but will fcarcely bear the feverhy of our fprings without 

 fome protection. Flowers from May to July. Propagated by 

 cuttings or layers. Introduced into the Kew Garden in 17655 

 by Mr. John Cree. 



