sometimes in the form of a smaller sort of tree, with a pale 

 cinereous bark. It is known to have been brought many 

 years ago from China to the Coast of Coromandel, where it 

 has continued to be universally cultivated in the gardens 

 ever since. It has likewise been found not unfrequently in 

 the wild state among the mountains of the Northern Circars. 

 Not long ago an unrecorded species was introduced into the 

 Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it is now cultivated un- 

 der the specific name of swnatrana, from its native Island 

 Sumatra. Dr. Roxburgh describes this as differing from 

 exotica in being much less bushy, with larger leaves, fewer 

 and bigger flowers, and a very distinct habit. 



Exotica was introduced by Mr. B. Torin in 1771; and 

 proves a most desirable evergreen for either the conservatory 

 or the greenhouse. It is delightfully fragrant, and the 

 opaque snow-white blossom forms a pleasing contrast with 

 the bright deep green of the foliage. The species appears 

 to be a great favourite with the Chinese; whence it is known 

 among the French in the Isle of France by the name of 

 Buis de Chine. The drawing was made from a sample 

 that flowered in the fine collection of Comtesse de Vandes, 

 at Bayswater. 



The genus makes one of the same ordinal group as the 

 Orange Tree. 



The wild plant is described by Dr. Roxburgh as follows: 

 <c Leaves scattered pinnate with an odd one: leaflets gene- 

 rally in 3 pairs, alternate, obovate-oblong, emarginate, 

 smooth, of a deep shining green, I j-2 inches long, about 1 

 broad, lowermost smallest: petioles glandular, round. Co^ 

 rymbs terminal, crowded, with pretty large beautifully and 

 purely white exquisitely fragrant flowers. Calyx 1 -leaved, 

 5-parted, glandular; segments erect pointed. Anthers ob- 

 long. Oermen glandular, 2-celled with 2 ovula in each cell 

 vertically attached to the uppermost part of the partition. 

 Berry superior, 2-celled: seeds solitary, 1-2, oblong, pointed 

 above, flat on one side, woolly: embryo inverted, albumen-* 

 less." The fruit is about the size of a largish Pea ; has a 



leathery rind, beset with small miliary glands like that of an 

 Orange. 



