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young shoots somewhat 4-angled. Leaves alternate, opposite, 
or sometimes three together, obovate, obtuse, immarginate, 
entire, glabrous, coriaceous; speckled beneath with darker 
coloured spots; both sides perforated with numerous small 
pores, scarcely visible to the naked eye. Umbels terminal, 
simple. Flowers pedicelled, numerous, white, on a thick, 
short, woody peduncle. Calyx 5-parted; segments contorted, 
membranous on the margins. Corolla hypocrateriform, 
5-cleft; segments lanceolate, acute, reflexed, as long as the tube; 
tube hairy within, a little longer than the calyx. (In the draw- 
ing the tube is represented somewhat too long.) Stamens 5; 
Jiiaments firmly united at the base into a tube, externally hairy, 
and edged with a thick downy ring; free portion of the fila- 
ments subulate. Anthers oblong, 2-celled, opening longi- 
tudinally. Pollen lodged in a double series of smaller cells, 
formed by numerous firm transverse partitions, separated by 
a common longitudinal one. Pistil: germen superior, cylin- 
drical; style tapering, the length of the stamens ; stigma simple. 
Pericarp a curved, rounded, acuminate, smooth, 1-seeded fol- 
licle, opening on the conyex side. Seed conformed to the 
follicle; radicle superior, connected with the receptacle by 
a long flattened thread, (funiculus; integumentum incomple- 
tum? Br.) cotyledons elongated, vobis ge 
inverse, conformed to the seed. - 
This plant is a native of salt Saray Scull on the banks 
of rivers near the sea. Several of the mouths of the Cavary 
which enter the sea in this district afford situations favourable 
for its production, and in such places it is very abundant, 
flowering and ripening its fruit during the greater part of the 
hot season. 
Super. Tas. XXI. A.—A branch with flowers and fruit. 
Fig. 1, Flower cut open and showing the stamens. Fig. 2, 
Stamen; the anther showing the pollen-cells. Fig. 3, the 
Pistil. Fig. 4, Fruit from which the theca or follicle is 
removed; showing the Embryo with its imperfect calyptri- 
form integument, &c., natural size. The rest of the dissec- 
tions are slightly magnified. 
