Original: The small white flowers, with ten-cleft calyx and corolla, two stamens and bifid stigma, are borne generally on the last year's wood, in racemes springing from the axils of the leaves.
Simplified: The small white flowers, with calyx and corolla divided into four parts, two stamens and bifid stigma, are mostly on the last years wood, in racemes coming up from the axils of the leaves.