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characteriftic of this natural order. Leaves clothing the 
younger branches, oppofite, on very fhort footftalks, 
flightly fpreading, linear-lanceolate, varying much in 
breadth, fharpifh, entire, with a fimple nerve. Stipule 
none. F/Yowers in terminal heads, numerous, inodorous. 
Braétee four broad ovate entire leaves, clofe to the 
flowers. Corolla very flender, tubular, {now-white, filky 
externally ; the /m in four equal ovate {preading feg- 
ments, with a red fpot at the bafe of each withinfide. 
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, Paférina, &c; anibhere oblong, yellow. 
Germen faperior, oval, green, very {mall, {mooth ; /y/e 
rather longer than the tube, fimple and capillary ; _//iema 
capitate, very fmall. Frwit a fmall oval dry berry or 
rather drupa, inveitted 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. XI. 
1. A Flower entire. 2. The fame opened, to fhew 
the itamina and ityle. 3. Piftllum. 4. Common re- 
ceptacle after the fruit has fallen. 5. Fruit invefted with 
the permanent bafe of the corolla. 6. Fruit naked. 
