According to the authors of Linncean classifications, 

 Blackwellia belongs to Dodecandria Pentagynia ; but this 

 species is Hexandrous and Tetragynous ! 



An erect shrub, with taper, ash-coloured branches, the 

 young ones being downy. Leaves flat, oval, obtuse, or 

 acute, toothletted, smooth ; their rib downy beneath ; 

 stipidcB deciduous. Racemes axillary, erect, shorter than 

 the leaf. Calij.v turbinate, hairy, with a 6-cleft limb, the 

 segments of which are glandular at the base. Petals 6, 

 rather larger. Stamens G, opposite the petals. Ovarium 

 1-celled, half superior, with four parietal placentae ; styles A, 

 smooth, hairy at the base. 



J. L. 



