In describing from a dried native sample, Sir James 
Smith has viewed the corolla as smooth, though in fact it 
is manifestly villous. The flowers are cernuous, about + of 
an inch long and bellshaped, and of a subscariose sub- 
stance that feels like paper, dry and stiff. They are smooth 
on the inside. The petals are cuneately oblong, of the 
same length as the segments of the calyx but much broader; 
the jags become finally twisted. The fleshy hypogynous 
ring is yellow. The anthers are scariose, roughly villous, 
and from cream-coloured fade to brown. 
Introduced in 1803. Drawn this summer at the Nur- 
sery of Messrs. Colvill, where it is cultivated in the green- 
house. Grows to a pretty large stout upright shrub. 
The figure of the fruit is done from a native sample ; 
it has sometimes, however, we believe, ripened in this 
country. 
