trained against a wall at Kew more than fifty years ago, 

 of which there is a specimen in the Kew Herbarium, 

 gathered in 1851. It had a remarkable appearance, 

 and was visible from a very great distance. It was killed 

 eventually by frost. 



JDescr. — A shrub or small, leafy, mealy, glaucous-white 

 tree, with strict, erect, stifif, four-angled branches ; bark 

 thin. Leaves sessile, opposite, three to four inches long, 

 orbicular or ovate-rotundate, apiculate, crenulate, thinly 

 coriaceous, concolorous, base sub-cordate; nerves very 

 inconspicuous, spreading. Peduncles very short, axillary, 

 three- rarely two- or four-flowered ; flowers rather large, 

 sessile. Calyx hemispheric, or broadly campanulate, 

 about one-third of an inch in diameter, smooth, glaucous- 

 green, punctulate, mouth open, margins thin, minutely 

 crenulate. Operculum shorter than the calyx, depressed- 

 conical or -hemispheric, smooth, white sutfused with red. 

 Stamens inflexed in bud ; filaments about as long as the 

 calyx; anthers minute, with a large dorsal gland, cells 

 parallel. Style short, stout ; stigma simple. Fruit rather 

 larger than the flowering calyx, smooth, coriaceous ; 

 valves of the capsule trigonous, immersed. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1 and 2, stamens ; 3, section of calyx showing the ovary : — all enlarged ■ 

 — +, fruit of the natural size. 



