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lanceolate bud-scales. A number of luxuiiant shoots issue from the 

 loot, which are thicker and more erect than the branches, of a pnr- 

 .plisli colour, as are also sometimes the younger branches. — Leaves 

 opposite, spreading, ovate-lanceolate, with a rounded or sub -cordate 

 base, from whence they taper into a very long, linear acumen, entire, 

 membranous, generally longer tliau their interstices, from four to 

 £;e inches long, those of the radical shoots very remote ; smooth, 

 • paque above, glaucous underneath, and roughish from a few short 

 Lairs obsovable on the elevated rib and oblique nerves; veins mi- 

 nutely reticulate. — Petiols slender, hairy and chanuelled, about half 

 an inch long, widening at the base, surrounding the place of inser- 

 tion with an elevated margin, which on the older branches widens into 

 a ligulate, recurved, interpetiolary process. — Flowers white with a tinge 

 of purple, iuodorous, middling-sized, sessile, sub-fascicled, disposed 

 in approximate verticils of fives and sixes, forming short, nodding, leafy, 

 oblong racemes, which terminate the branches and branchlets. — 

 Uractes large, foliaceous, membranous, sub-decus9ate, more or less 

 purple, pubescent and ciliate, veined, lanceolate, attenuate and finely 

 acuminate, sessile, surrounding the rachis with their concave basis ; 

 there are generally six under each verticil, of which the two outer ones 

 are two or three inches long, rounded and generally connate at the 

 base; the inner ones much smaller; those at the base of the raceme, 

 are considerably larger than the rest. Calyx above, persistent 

 five-parted, small; divisions linear, acute, ciliate, -with gland-capitate 

 hairs ; unequal : two considerably longer than the rest. — Corolla in- 

 fund rbuii form, pubescent, about two-thirds of an inch long ; tube cy- 

 Hndric, very narrow at the base, and immediately above it swelled and 

 gibbous all round; widening into the five. parted campanulate bor- 

 der, its inside marked with five oblong pubescent protuberances, 

 alternating with the insertion of the filaments.— Segments nearly 

 equal, ovate, blunfish, a little spreading. — Stamina five, erect, 

 about the length of the border, alternating with its laciniae and 

 inserted immediately below their fissures ; filaments filiform, some- 

 what hairy; anthers vacillating, oblong, two-celled, inserted a little 

 above the middle of iheirback, shorter than the filament. — Ovarium 



