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chara6leriftic of this natural order. Leaves clothing the 
younger branches, oppofite, on very Ihort footftalks, 
nightly fpreading, linear-lanceolate, varying much in 
breadth, fliarpifh, entire, with a limple nerve. Stipula 
none. Flowers in terminal heads, numerous, inodorous. 
Bra&ea four broad ovate entire leaves, clofe to the 
flowers. Corolla very flender, tubular, fnow-white, filky 
externally ; the limb in four equal ovate fpreading feg- 
ments, with a red fpot at the bafe of each withinlide. 
Stamina two, their filaments rather fhorter than the limb, 
and inferted into the bafe of two of its fegments, fo that 
they are altogether without the tube, and not within it 
as in Daphne^ Pajferina^ See; anther ce oblong, yellow. 
Germen fuperior, oval, green, very fmall, fmooth ; Jlyle 
rather longer than the tube, fimple and capillary ; Jligma 
capitate, very fmall. Fruit a fmall oval dry berry or 
rather drupa, invefted with the permanent bafe of the 
corolla, and containing a folitary hard feed or nut. 
Common receptacle clothed with numerous white per- 
manent hairs. 
EXPLANATION of TAB. XL 
I. A Flower entire. 2. The fame opened, to fliew 
the ifamina and ftyle. 3. Piftillum. 4. Common re- 
ceptacle after the fruit has fallen. 5. Fruit invefled with 
the permanent bafe of the corolla. 6. Fruit naked. 
