NAT. ORDER. 
ButacecB. 
BAEOSMA CEENULATA. CEENULATED BUCKU. 
Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Caly.%% five-cleft. Disk, covering- the bottom of the 
calyx. Petals, five, with short claws. Filaments, ten. Style^ 
leng-th of the petals. 
Spc. Char. Leaves, opposite, ovate, acute, dotted. Pedicels, solitary, 
one-flowered. Flowers, white. 
The plant from which this description and fig-ure are taken, is an 
uprig-ht shrub, between two and three feet in heig^ht, with twiggy 
branches of a brownish purple ting-e ; leaves decussate, spreading", about 
an inch long", oval-lanceolate, on very short petioles, very obtuse, deli- 
cately and minutely crenated, quite g^labrous, rig"id, darkish-g-reen, and 
quite smooth above, with a few very obscure oblique nerves, beneath paler, 
dotted with g"lands which are scarcely pellucid, while at every crena- 
ture is a conspicuous pellucid g"land ; there is also a narrow, pellucid 
margin round the whole leaf; peduncles about as long" as the leaf, 
axillary and terminal, chiefly from the superior leaves, single-flowered, 
often (but not always) bearing" a pair of small opposite leaves, or brac- 
teas, above the middle, each of which in my native specimens some- 
times bears a flower in its axil ; beneath the calyx are two or three 
pairs of small imbricated bracteas ; calyx of five ovate-acuminate leaf- 
lets, g"reen, ting"ed with purple ; corolla of five ovate petals, purple in 
the bud, blush-colored when fully expanded : stamens five, at first 
erect, then recurved, about as long" as the petals ; filaments slig"htly 
villous ; anthers oblong" ; barren filaments, five, lanceolate, white, rather 
Vol, IV.— 177. 
