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HALESIA parviflora. 
Smallflowered Halesia. 
DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat.ord. Styraceze, 
HALESIA, Ellis.—Calyx minimus, 4-dentatus. Corolla magna, cam- 
panulato-ventricosa, ore sub 4-lobo. Stamina 12-16, filamentis basi in 
tubum. connatis et corolle adnatis; antheree oblonge, erect. Germen 
inferum. Stylus 1. Stigma 1. Nua corticata, oblonga, 4-ona, angulis 
alatis, stylo persistente acuminata, 4-locularis, 4-sperma; loculis 2-3, seepe 
abortivis.———Frrutices ; pedunculi plures, axillaves, uniflori.. Fructis ale 
wn H. tetraptera equales, in H. diptera 2 opposite ceteris minores. Juss. 
gen. 165. 
H. parviflora; foliis ovato-oblongis acutis subintegris utrinque pubes- 
centibus subtis glaucis, racemis foliosis paniculatis, dentibus calycinis 
ovatis, stylo incluso, floribus octandris. 
H. parviflora Michaux, fl. bor. am. 2.40. Pursh. am. sept.2,450. Nuttall. 
gen. am. 2.83. o 
Rami adultt leves, brunnei, juniores pubescentes. Folia ovato-oblonga, 
breviter acuminata, utrinque pubescentia, supra viridia, subtits glauca, juniora 
integra; adulta subdenticulata. Flores albidi, quam H. tetraptere pauld 
minores, in racemis subcompositis pendulis disposite, cum foliis cotemporanei. 
Calyx obovatus, tomentosus, 4-dentatus, dentibus ovatis acutis. Petala 
rugosa, tomentosa, obovata, obtusa, estivatione imbricata. Stamina 8, peta- 
lorum longitudine. Filamenta pilosa. Stylus inclusus. 
This rare plant was most kindly communicated to us 
in May last by the Dowager Countess of Aylesford, from 
her collection at Stanmore, where, her ladyship informs us, 
it has existed for fifteen or twenty years, without producing 
flowers, until the specimen now represented made its 
appearance. It was sent to Lady Aylesford with the name 
of Halesia diptera; an obscure plant, respecting which we 
have a few remarks to offer. 
Under the article Halesia in Rees’s Gyclopzdia, we. 
find the following note by Sir James Edward Smith: 
