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4, Amelenchicr ledic. service berry, 
Small trees or tree-like shrubs with slternate Simple lesves, Flowers 
in short racomes, rather showye Calvx Departed, the tube campanulates senals 
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soon revlexed, persistent, P tals white,. 5, oblanceolote, Stemens many 
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the filaments subulete. Overy inferior, the locules becoming tvrice as many 
as the stvles; styles 385, -«ruit a small purple-black pome, 
1e Ae Plorics Lindl. A shrub 2-5 m, t211; mature bark dull grey, younger 
bark olivaceousy somewhat rouzhened by lenticels end mumcrous small fissures, 
branchlets clabrous end claucous or more or less sillcyj-hirsute, but quickly 
becoming glabrous end glaucouss buds ovete, reddish, the outer scsles 
glabrous snd flaucous, the inner fringed or more or less Silky-hirsute; 
leaves rather dull green, often glaucous, becoming thickish in age, veriable 
on the same vlant, cormonly S-4 em, long, generally oval, varying to oblonseS 
oval or subrotund, rounded or truncate at both ends, commonly lichtliv cordate 
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at the base, the marz:ins toothed only sbove the middle, frecuently subentire 
or some leaves wholly so, the membibéeen nov coarse, now fine, the lower 
surface usually hirsute when voung, soon glebrate, or clabrous from the bud, 
petioles l-2 em. long, slender, the stivules linear, red silly, crovoing very 
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quickly; racemes on usually sho eceral branchlets, the pedicels 1-1,.5 em, 
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long, slender, clabr-1s or silky at first and recomin, gSlebrouc: calvx-lobes 
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veo mt, 10ong, oricngular-lenceolate, er--monl: cCuminavce, avout equal to the 
tube, glabrous without, more or less woolly within alonr the marrzins; petals 
10-20 m, lone; stanens ebout 20, che alternete ones shorter, sereted on the 
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rein of the shallo Musium walen is densely woolly just at the bese of 
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bhe suyics; pome cenressed=-glohose, wi bloom, rarely 1 cm. in diameter, one 
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or two seeds only usuall curing, 
Ck hie paysae “euadge> wee oe a a eek ee a 5 teat - 
GVOIon cmrouss r region, tne Fruit mue rLZC03 a tiicey form es 
on bousole leevscs above svreams is lmown as i, Cusickii fcrnald, 
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