Chives. Five threads, hair-like, the length of the blossom. Tips oblong, upright.
Pointal. Seed-bud beneath, roundish, flattened. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the chives. Summit simple, blunt.
Seed-vessel. A roundish berry, flattened, crowned with the permanent cup, two-celled.
Seeds two, roundish, flattened, and at a distance from each other.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Chiococca foliis oppositis, ovatis, acuminatis; ramis horizontalibus; floribus racemosis, pendulis.
Snowberry-tree with opposite leaves, egg-shaped, tapered; branches grow horizontal; flowers grow in bunches hanging down.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement, natural size.
2. The same, magnified.