margin. In some of these particulars it may be compared 
to the T. recurva of the Hortus Bengalensis ; but that plant 
is to be readily known by its large leafy calyx, smaller 
flowers, and more robust stature, and, I believe, is not yet 
in this country. The plant in the possession of the Society 
was imported in 1824, by the Honourable Court of Direc- 
tors of the East India Company, and presented by them 
to the Society. When in flower it diffuses a delicious 
fragrance. 
** A lactescent shrub, requiring the protection of the 
stove, where it has attained the height of three feet. The stem 
is much branched, and covered with a cinereous spotted 
bark. Young branches round, dark green, spotted here and 
there with ash colour. Leaves membranous, stalked, oval, 
smooth, dark green above, paler and veiny beneath. Cymes 
growing by pairs from between the petioles, almost hori- 
zontal, with a stalk about as long as the petiole, quite 
smooth, biternate. Pedicels short, thick. Calyx five-toothed, 
with ovate-lanceolate, imbricated, entire segments. Corolla 
yellowish white, hypocrateriform ; tube longer than limb, 
slightly ventricose towards the orifice ; limb much twisted, 
smooth, with convex, oblong segments, undulated at the 
margin; orifice fleshy, contracted. Stamens included, with 
hairy filaments, which are adnate to the corolla. Anthers 
not sagittate, oblong, acute, with linear cells, and a rigid, 
fleshy connectivum. Pollen white. Ovarium roundish, 
2-lobed, acuminate, not seated in a discus, 2-celled, with 
its ovules all buried in the substance of a fleshy placenta. 
Style bulbous at base, filiform. Stigma capitate, with a 
2-lobed apex, seated on a fleshy base. 
“ A valuable stove-plant, flowering in September, and 
propagated by cuttings: it grows freely in a compost of 
loam, peat, and sand, mixed in equal quantities.” 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society. L 
J. L. 
