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long cultivated in the Isle of France, whence dried speci- 

 mens were sent to Lamarck, from which the figure and 

 description in the Encyclopedie Methodique were prepared. 



In the stove it attains the height of a man, and is 

 valued for the beauty of its leaves' and the fragrance of 

 its flowers, which appear in the ends of the branches, in 

 April. No means having , been yet discovered of propa- 

 gating it, it is one of the rarest plants in our Gardens, 

 two individuals only existing, as far as we know, in this 

 country. Of these, one is, we believe, in His Majetsy's 

 Garden at Kew ; the other is in possession of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, to whom it was brought from China by 

 Mr. John Potts, in 1822. From this latter our drawing 

 was made. 



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From the Calcutta Catalogue, it appears to have been 

 introduced into the Botanic Garden there, in 1811, by a 

 Monsieur Jannet. 



This species is remarkable for the structure of its 

 stamens, which are in number 12, their filaments in all 



appearance' perfectly simple, but their anthers double ; 

 that is to say, each filament supports two subulate, 

 2-celled, perfectly constructed anthers, which do not stand 

 right and left with respect to the axis of fructification, ,but 

 are placed anteriorly and posteriorly, — a singular arrange- 

 ment, which deserves attention, but which was not 

 remarked by M. Desrousseaux in the article already 

 alluded to in the French Encyclopaedia. 



A slightly branched shrub, or small tree, producing 

 scarcely any twigs. The branches are spreading, ash- 

 coloured, and pubescent. The leaves are alternate, oblong, 

 acute at either end, with an undulated margin ; they are 

 about 7 inches long and 3 broad, dark green on the upper 

 surface, and on the lower shew a silky texture' and golden 

 lustre ; their petioles are thick, half-round, and short. 

 The Jlowers are dioecious,' disposed in stalked bundles, 

 each containing 5 or 7, and are very sweet-scented. The 

 calyj: is roundish, 4-parted, silky, and its footstalk is 

 closely covered by imbricated, silky, closely pressed bracteae. 

 The corolla is monopetalous, somewhat urceolate, pale 

 yellow, silky, with a revolute, 4-cleft limb, the segments 



