‘ley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham. 
round it in the manner of an inyolucre till it decays. The 
species, the only one of the genus, is of the same natura! 
order as the Common Mezereon and the Spurge-Laurel 0 
our own country; of which the co-ordinates seem universally 
distinguished by the toughness of the wood. The present 
plant requires to be cultivated in bog-earth, and flower’ 
about March or April. ' 
A deciduous upright corymbosely branching shrub, sel 
dom exceeding the height of four or five feet, branches nU- 
‘merous with a pale brown very smooth bark, somewhat | 
tumid at their insertion, and looking as if one was let int? | 
the socket of the other. Buds floral, terminal and laterali | 
scales whitish yellow, a little more than half an inch long 
equal to or even longer than the inflorescence, membranous 
oblong, obtuse, veined, smooth within, sericeously furreé 
without by a brownish pubescence. Flowers ternately 
fascicled, a fascicle dependent from the side of every bud, 
whitish yellow; peduncles very short, round, thickish, di- 
viding into three one-flowered pedicles connected with tbe 
flower by a joint. Calyx none. Corolla membranous 
inferior, less than one third of an inch in length, funnel 
form; faux campanulate; limb nearly obsolete, somewhat 
‘slanted, indentedly lobed, lobes rounded. Stamens pro- 
truding beyond the corolla, inserted at the mouth of the 
tube, which is about the length of the faux and limb to 
gether: anthers upright, terminal, short, adnately equitant 
at the apex of the filament: pollen granular, grumou% 
sometimes sulphur-coloured, sometimes of as deep a yellow 
as that of the yolk of an egg. Germen green, smooth; 
ovately elliptical, one-celled, one-seeded: style longer that 
the stamens, setiform, white like the filaments, assurgent 
and variously inflectent towards. the top: stigma a simple 
point. Leaves lanceolately oval, rather tender, pointed, 
villous underneath, narrowed further downwards than up- 
wards. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs, Whit- 
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