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 characteristic of this natural order. Leaves clothing the younger branches, opposite, on very short footstalks, slightly spreading, linear-lanceolate, varying much in breadth, sharpish, entire, with a simple nerve. Stipulae none. Flowers in terminal heads, numerous, inodorous. Bracteæ four ovate entire leaves, close to the flowers. Corolla very slender, tubular, snow-white, silky externally; the limb in four equal ovate spreading segments, with a red spot on the base of each withinside. Stamina two, their filaments rather shorter than the limb, and inserted into the base of two of its segments, so that they are altogether without the tube, and not within it as in Daphne, Passerina, &c; antheræ oblong, yellow. Germen superior, oval, green, very small, smooth; style longer than the tube, simple and capillary; stigma capitate, very small. Fruit a small oval dry berry or rather drupa, invested with the permanent base of the corolla, and a containing a solitary hard seed or nut. Common receptacle clothed with numerous white permanent hairs.

1. A Flower entire. 2. The same opened, to shew the stamina and style. 3. Pistillum. 4. Common receptacle after the fruit has fallen. 5. Fruit invested with the base of the corolla. 6. Fruit naked.