20 ADDISONIA 
The common corylopsis is a shrub of rather compact habit, rarely 
exceeding four feet tall and of equal width. The young —— are 
pubescent, salted reas later. The leaves, two to three 
inches long, are alternate, the mature ones having iedey talks 
commonly less than an inch lon ng; the blades are broadly oval or 
obovate, or vaste orbicular, inequilateral, especially at the cordate 
base, and acute at the apex; the upper surface is green and glabrous, 
the lower paler and whitish, pubescent, especially on the slightly 
curved nerves; the margin is sinuately toothed, the nerves extending 
into short points. The pendulous aoc are one to two inches 
long and have six to ten flowers, each flow —— subt matted by a 
conspicuous broad brown bract; there are ales milar bracts and 
two or three leaves below the racemes. ‘The eck are three 
eighths of an inch to half an inch long; the calyx is hairy, the lobes 
short; the petals are bright yellow, obovate and obtuse, and are 
narrowed toward the base. ‘The stamens are five, alternating with 
oo -parted short staminodes. There are two styles, and the 
ovary is partly superior. The fruit is a two-celled dehiscent cap- 
sule, each cell with a beak and containing a single black seed. 
GEORGE v. NASH. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig. 1—Flowering branch. Fig. 2.—Portion of 
calyx, with petal and two stamens, X 2. Fig. 3.—Pistils, x 2. Fig. 4.— 
Fruiting branch. Fig. 5.—Fruit open, exposing seeds. 
