NAT. ORDER. '^ 



BiUacecB. 



BAEOSMA CEENULATA. CEENULATED BUCKU. 



Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Cali/.i:, five-cleft. Disk, covering- the bottom of the 

 calyx. Petals, five, with short claws. Filaments, ten. Style, 

 leng-th of the petal's. 



*S^;e. Char. Leaves, opposite, ovate, acute, dotted. Pedicels, solitaiy, 

 one-flowered. Flowers, white. 



The plant from which this description and figure are taken, is an 

 upright shrub, between two and three feet in height, with twiggy 

 branches of a brownish purple tinge ; leaves decussate, spreading, about 

 an inch long, oval-lanceolate, on very short j}efioles, very obtuse, deli- 

 cately and minutely crenated, quite glabrous, rigid, darkish-green, and 

 quite smooth above, with a few very obscure oblique nerves, beneath paler, 

 dotted with glands which are scarcely pellucid, while at every crena- 

 ture is a conspicuous pellucid gland ; there is also a narrow, pellucid 

 margin round the whole leaf; peduncles about as long as the leaf, 

 axillary and terminal, chiefly from the superior leaves, single-flowered, 

 often (but not always) bearing a pair of small opposite leaves, or brac- 

 teas, above the middle, each of which in my native specimens some- 

 times bears a flower in its axil ; beneath the calyx are two or three 

 pairs of small imbricated bracteas ; cabjx of five ovate-acuminate leaf- 

 lets, green, tinged with purple ; corolla of five ovate petals, purple in 

 the bud, blush-colored when fully expanded : stamens five, at first 

 erect, then recui-ved, about as long as the petals ; ^/amcn/s slightly 

 villous ; anthers oblong ; ban-en filaments, five, lanceolate, white, rather 



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