our stoves ; and have created some perplexity among bota* 



nists as to their distinction. Three of these, viz. caribceum 



(fragrant of the 2d edit, of Hort. Kew.), amcenum, and 



spectosum, have been correctly figured in Curtis's Botanical 

 Magazine; and we have now an opportunity of publishing 

 the fourth, the one of the least frequent occurrence. This 



m ay 



be distinguished at 



first sight from the other three by 

 a smaller flower, much slenderer in all the parts, and by a 

 proportionately far broader foliage. Linnaeus has made it a 

 variety of amboineme in his second edition of the Species 

 Plantarum, evidently from a very imperfect acquaintance 

 With both ; no two plants that can be included in the 

 same genus being more widely and clearly distinct when 



sufficiently known. Miller, by whom the present species 

 was cultivated, has recorded it in the sixth and last quarto 

 edition of his Dictionary, by the name we have adopted ; 

 but we do not find that it has since been received into any 

 systematic enumeration of vegetables as a separate one. 

 It approaches amentum (lately published in Redoute's Li- 

 liacees, tab. 413, by the name of fragrant) the nearest of 



any other ; but still differs, beside the smallness of the 

 flower and breadth of the foliage, by a tube that has no 

 trace of an hexangular form, by a limb, that, instead of be- 

 ing a third longer, is scarcely equal to the tube, and by a 

 crown in which the interstamineous teeth are entire, and not 

 bipartite. All the four species are very fragrant, and if 

 kept constantly in the bark -bed will flower twice, and some- 

 times even thrice a year. The figure we have adduced in 

 the synonymy from the Botanist's Repository, we formerly 

 believed to belong to ama/turn, but now think that it has 

 been more probably intended for ovation; in truth, it is 

 hard to say where it belongs. Ovatum, though oi long 

 standing, is far from a common plant in our collections; it 

 is inferior, in point of ornament and fragrance, to the other 

 three, especially to speciosum and caribaum, of which last a 

 correct and characteristic figure has been very lately given 

 in Willdenow's " Hortus berolinensis" (tab. 73). 



The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in 



the hothouse in Mr. Griffin's garden at South Lambeth. 

 The stem was about the length of the outer leaf, which was 

 about one foot long and half of one broad. 





a The pistil freed from the corolla. 



