terially from the true Catycanrut, which are confined to 
North America, in baving the fruit crowned by the persist- 
ent, recurved, fleshy stamens, which grow together and 
close up its orifice. The difference in number of stamens is 
also of importance, because in the present genus they are 
ten inserted in a double row; in Catycantuus, on the con- 
trary, 48 and inserted in four rows, the innermost being 
merely rudimentary; so that CHIMONANTHUS must not be 
understood as a reduced CaLvcaNTHUS, because, if it were 
such, its stamens would. be twelve, or some such division 
of 48, and not ten, which is a division of 40. The pericarpia 
(seedvessels), moreover, are very numerous in CALYCANTHUS, 
and few in Cuimonanravs.” 
* There is some reason to suppose that two species are 
confounded under the name of CaLYcaNTHUS precor, in the 
gardens. But as I have beeti unable to ascertain their limits 
satisfactorily, I shall confine myself to indicating in what 
the chief differences appear to consist. The one, which is 
that figured in the Hortus Kewensis and Curtis's Magazine, 
has greenish yellow flowers, of which the outer segments 
are even at the edge and scarcely spreading, and the inner 
ones dull purple; the other of which my figure in flower is a 
representation, has large, clear, yellow, roundish flowers, 
whose outer segments are sometimes curled at the edge and 
spreading, and inner ones bright red. I have not succeeded 
in detecting other differences, but am assured that the leaves 
of the large-flowered sort (which is cultivated in the collec- 
tion of Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater) are rougher than 
those of the other, and of a lighter green. It is necessary 
to state, that the fruit and details of the plate all belong to 
the small-flowered kind.” ° 
©“ From the drawings of the Chinese I am disposed to 
believe that at least one more species exists among them, | 
with very small yellow flowers. There is also, in an inva- 
luable collection of Japanese wood-figures of plants in Sir 
Joseph Banks's library, a representation of what I am ` 
willing to consider a fourth species of CurmonantHUS, with 
smooth egg-shaped fruit, and a very stunted habit." Lind- 
ley MSS. d i 1 
Aa, fruit of C. fragrans; (x); 1, stamens of the same with 
perianthium (calyx) torn off; 2, a section of the same; 3; 8 
