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TAB. X 
EMBOTHRIUM buxifolium. 
Box-leaved Embothrium. 
So TSP ODLPLI OPED 
Spec. CHarR. E. foliis ellipticis integerrimis revolutis 
fupra fcabris fubtus pubefcentibus, floribus umbel- 
latis, fructu villofo. 
Leaves elliptical, entire, revolute, rough above, 
downy beneath. Flowers in umbels. Fruit downy. 
THIS, like the preceding fpecies, is hitherto a 
ftranger to our gardens. In its native country it flowers 
about November. 
Root knobbed and woody. Stemwz much branched, 
three or four feet high; the branches round, clothed 
with harfh down, and thickly covered with very nu- 
merous alternate folitary /eaves, about the fize of thofe 
of box, almott feffile, elliptical, with a little fharp point, 
entire, revolute, but deftitute of the lateral nerves ob- 
fervable in E. /ericeum, veiny, dark green, very rough 
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