260 Dr. Smith' j Botanical Characters of fame Plants 



affinity in character, habit, and aromatic qualities, to Leptofper- 

 mum; from which it differs only in having but eight ftamina, inftead 

 of a large indefinite number, which in this order is a fufficient 

 generic diftin&ion ; efpecially as the number is very conftant in 

 all the flowers I have examined of the Chinefe, as well as the New 

 Holland, fpecies, though I have not often found two of the ftamina 

 (asLinnasus defcribes them) fhorter than the reft. 



i. B^ecke a frutefccns, foliis oppofitis muticis, dentibus calycinis 

 membranaceis coloratis. 

 B. frutefcens. Linn. Sp. PL 514. O/b. Re/a, 231* t. 1. Voyage, 



v. 2. 373. U I. 

 B. chinenfis. Gtertn. Sem. 157. /. 31. 



Difcovered in China by Ofbeck. 



2. B. denjifolia, foliis quadrifariam imbricatis obtufls mucronulo 

 reflexo, dentibus calycinis foliaceis. 



Sent from Port Jackfon, New South Wales, by Mr. White. 



3. LEPTOSPERMUM Forji. Gen. 36. /. 36. Jig,/-—/. Jug. Gen. 323. 



Gatrtn. Sem. t. 35. 



Icosandria Monogynia, after Philadelphia. 



Char. Gen. Calyx 5-fidus, femifuperus, Petala 5, unguicu- 

 lata, ftaminibus longiora. Stigma capitatum. Capfula 4- vel 

 5-locularis. Semina angulofa. 



To this genus naturally belong many fhrubs which were re- 

 ferred by Dr. Solander to Philadelphus, and appeared under that 



2 genus 



