298 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA: MyrSlUt. 



young densely so, and ferruginous. — Leaves lanceolate, elongated, 

 scattered, very close to each other, short-petioled, taperin^, acu- 

 minate ; base acute; leatheiy, entire, smooth, shining above; with 

 many, parallel, oblique, fine nerves underneath, which unite in arches 

 close to the margin ; rib slender, prominent, appearing to be keeled 

 above when dry ; veins invisible ; when held to the light they appear 

 fcespnnkled with copious, minute, brown, round or linear, trans- 

 parent dots ; from four to seven inches long ; pubescent while 

 ■young. — Petiol as long as a nail, convex, wuh a rlattish furrow- 

 above.' — Flowers white, small, slightly villous, copiously marked 

 On all the internal a3 well as external parts with brown elevated 

 round or linear, largish dots ; pedicelled, collected in dense, axillary, 

 round, sub-ses$i\e fascicles, or from the vestiges of the fallen leaves; 

 in the latter case they occupy and almost coveT the branches for 

 a good length under the leaves. — -Pedicels round, villous, four lines 

 long, supported by very minute bractez. Calyx spreading, villous, 

 ■with lanceolate, acute, ciiiate teeth.— Corolla rotate, smooth, dotted, 

 tWee femes the size of the calyx; before expansion spirally imbri- 

 cate and conical ; lacinia ovate, acute, spreading, their base pubes- 

 cent ; tube very short. — Filaments five, very short, opposite the 

 lacunae, a little pubescent at their broad bases, which unite in a nar- 

 row margin. "Sterile ones none. Anthers erect, large and thick, 

 ovate, acute, cuspidate, sub-triangular, uniting into a conical five- 

 cornertd tube round die style, at length free, the back fleshy with 

 many elevated large dots ; cells marginal, longitudinal. Ovary glo- 

 bular, sessile, without any surrounding disc, one-celled ; ovula five 

 or more, flattish, round, irregularly scattered and sub-immersed, on a 

 globular, fleshy, erect placenta. Styk filiform, a little longer than 

 the stamina. Stigma simple. — I have only seen one unripe, imper- 

 fect fruit, which was oblong, dotted with glands, six lines long, sup- 

 ported by the unaltered calvx, on a lengthened divaricate peduncle ; 

 one-celled. 



Obs. This tree is exceedingly like a Bumelia, Gaeit, fil. Carp. 



