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BacKEA saxicota. Stony Backers. 
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‘Class and. Order. 
Icosanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Myrracea, ) 
Generic Character. 
Calycis tubus turbinatus, limbus 5-fidus persistens. Petala 
Stam. 5—10 (—15) libera, petalis breviora. Stylus 
filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Capsula 2—5-locularis, 
calyce inclusa, polysperma.—Frutices. Folia opposita 
glabra, punctata. Flores pedicellati, albi, parvi. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Backe * saxicola; glaberrima, foliis quadrifariis imbricatis 
obovatis acutis punctatis immarginatis brevissime pe- 
tiolatis, floribus ex axillis foliorum supremorum solita- 
riis vel binis breve pedunculatis, staminibus 10. 
Backea saxicola. Cunningham MSS. 
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Descr. A low Shrub, prostrate in its wild state, but, 
when cultivated in the gardens of Kew, erect, with virgate 
branches ; the branches mostly opposite, quadrangular, 
clothed with pale grey, lax bark. Leaves most copious on 
the young shoots, all of them opposite, quadrifarious, obo- 
vate, coriaceous, acute, very shortly petioled, scarcely at all 
Margined, dotted on both sides with glands, abounding in 
grant oil, erecto-patent. Flowers solitary, or two to- 
ether, from the axils of the leaves, which are at the extre- 
Mities of the branches, on petioles rather longer than the 
leaves, Calyx with its adherent tube turbinate, glandular ; 
the limb of five rounded, delicate, pale-rose-coloured, — 
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* In compliment to Apranam Bagcx, a Swedish Botanist. 
