EMBOTHRIUM buxifolium. 
Box-leaved Emhothrium, 
Spec. Char. E. foliis ellipticis integerrimis revolutis 
fupra fcabris fubtus pubefcentibus, floribus iimbel- 
latis, fru6tu villofo. 
Leaves elliptical, entire, revolute, rough above, 
downy beneath. Flowers in umbels. Fruit downy. 
THIS, like the preceding fpecies, is hitherto a 
llranger to our gardens. In its native country it flowers 
about November. 
Root knobbed and woody. Stem much branched, 
three or four feet high ; the branches round, clothed 
with harlh down, and thickly covered with very nu- 
merous alternate folitary leaves^ about the fize of thofe 
of box, almoft feflile, elliptical, with a little fharp point, 
entire, revolute, but deftitute of the lateral nerves ob- 
fervable in E. fericeum^ veiny, dark green, very rough 
