ZSO ON OLIBANUM 



Petioles round, downy. 



Racemes axillary, simple, shorter than the leaves, 

 downy. 



Bracts minute. 



Flowers numerous, very pale pink, small. 



Calyx five lobed *, downy. 



Corol, petals five, oblong, expanding, downy on the 

 outside, and considerably longer than the stamens. 



Nectary, a fleshy crenulated cup-}-, surrounding the 

 r,s lower two-thirds of the germ. 



Stamens: Filaments ten, alternately shorter :j:, inserted 

 on the outer edge of the mouth of the nectary. 

 Anthers oblong. 



Pistil. Germ above, ovate. Style cylindric. Stigma 

 of three pretty large lobes. 



Pericarp : Capsule oblong, three-sided, three-celled, 

 three-valved, size of an olive, smooth. 



Seed solitary, winged, broad- cordate, at the base deeply 

 emarginate, point long and slender, and by it in- 

 serted into the apex of the valve of the Capsule to 

 which it belongs. 



The foregoing description is by Dr. Roxburgh. I 

 Have merely added in the margin a few inconsiderable 

 variatioiis taken from Dr. Hunter's notes or from my 

 own. 



The fructification is remarkably diversified on the 

 same plant. I have found, even on the same raceme, 

 flowers in which the teeth or lobes of the Calyx 



• 9o Dr. Roxburgh. But Perianth l-leaved, /i-toothed j ac- 

 cording to Dr. Huntek's observations and my owo. 

 f Coloured and adhering to the Calyx. 

 + Subulate and alternately slender. - • 



