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29 EMBOTHRIUM buxifolium.

Box-leaved Embothrium.

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Root knobbed and woody. Stem much branched, three or four feet high; the branches round, clothed with  harsh down, and thickly covered with very numerous alternate solitary leaves, about the size of those of box, almost sessile, elliptical, with a little sharp point, entire, revolute, but destitute of the lateral nerves observable in E. sericeum, veiny, dark green, very rough