a6o Dr. SmithV Botanical Chara^ers of fotne Plants 



affinity in cbara6ler, habit, and aromatic qualities, to heptofper- 

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

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

 o-cneric diftindlion ; efpecially as the number is very conftaut in 

 all the flowers I have examined of the Chinefe, as well as the Nev/ 

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

 (as Linnsus defcribes them) ftiorter than the reft. 



1. Hjeck^a frulefcens, fohis oppofitis muticis,. dentibus calycinis-. 



membranaceis coloratis. 

 B. frutefcens. Linn. Sp. P/. 514. OJh. Refa, 231, /. i. Voyage^, 



V. 2. 373. /. I. 

 B. chinenfis. Gartn.Scm. 157. /. 31. 



Difcovered in China by Ofbeck. 



2. B. denffolia^ foliis quadrifariam imbricatis obtufis mucronub 



reflexo, dentibus calycinis foliaceis. 



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



3. LEPTOSPERMUM Forjl. Gen. 36. t. 36. fig. f—l Jujf. Gen. 323, 



Gcertn. Sent. t. 2,S' 



IcosANDRiA Monogynia, after Philadelphus. 



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 



genus 



