Jacquin, who found it in the Havanna, on bush-covered 
rocks near the sea, and sometimes growing upon the naked 
rock itself, describes it as an inelegant straggling shrub about 
six feet high. He says the bright vermilion coloured flowers 
are as sweet-scented as violets; a property however which 
exists in only a slight degree in the cultivated plant. 
It is usually known in gardens by the erroneous name of 
Rondeletia speciosa. 
