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The tree is of a confiderable height, upright, much 
branched, and of a beautiful appearance when the 
flowers are come to maturity, or rather about perfecting 
their feed, asin the fpecimen here figured. [Every part 
is quite fmooth. Branches oppofite, round, ilightly 
angular at the top. Leaves oppofite, on footttalks, 
ternate. Leaflets feffile, nearly equal, lanceolate, obtufe, 
ferrated, veiny, fhining, paler beneath. S//puce none. 
Panicles terminal, firft oppofitely, and then alternately 
branched, with a fmall pointed glutinous bractea at the 
bafe cf each partial flower-ftalk. Flowers at firft ex- 
panding {mall, but the calyx afterwards becomes much 
enlarged, whitifh, tinged with red, and all their parts 
continue permanent till the fruit is ripe. The Calyx 
is inferior, five-cleft; its fegments lanceolate, acute, 
flightly ribbed; its margin at the bafe of the fegments 
furrounded with a ring bearing the petals and ftamina, 
as in icofandrous plants. Pefa/s alternate with its feg- 
ments, at firit equal to them in length, then much 
fhorter, irregularly and unequally pinnatifid; their di- 
vifions linear and acute. Stamina ihorter than the 
petals, awl-fhaped. Azer roundith, of two oval cells, 
and with a fpur at their bafe. Germicn in the bottom 
of the calyx, globular, ten-ribbed. S*y/e awl-thaped, 
fhort. Stigma cloven, acute. Capéde in form lke the 
germen, fmall, with a coriaceous covering, originally 
two-celled, but one fide feems always abortive, and the 
feed in the other pufhes the partition from the centre. 
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