attempts to introduce this genus into Kew, but always 

 unsuccessfully. The seeds, however packed, invariably 

 perished during the voyage, owing to the rotting of the 

 copious fleshy albumen, and the minuteness of the embryo. 

 In 1884, however, that enterprising cultivator, E. Loder, 

 Esq., received a Ward's case with living plants of the 

 species here figured, of which he was good enough to give 

 two plants to Kew, and of these one, that here figured, 

 flowered in February of the present year. Its flowers were, 

 as was to be expected, deliciously fragrant. 



Desce. A glabrous shrub, six to ten feet high ; branches 

 erect, woody; bark brown. Leaves three to six inches 

 long, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, entire or 

 serrate, narrowed into a short petiole a quarter to one- 

 third inch long, bright-green and glossy above, yellow- 

 green beneath ; nerves faint. Flowers in small axillary 

 clusters, drooping ; pedicels one-eighth to a quarter of an 

 inch long, bracteate at the base ; bracts subulate. Calyx- 

 tube oblong, lobes oblong-ovate, subacute. Corolla one 

 and a half inch long, dull red, or creamy-white, with dull 

 red streaks ; tube cylindric, funnel-shaped above ; lobes 

 ovate, recurved, obtusely subfimbriately toothed and muri- 

 cate on the upper surface ; teeth incurved. Stamens at 

 the throat of the corolla, filaments very short; anthers 

 oblong, included. Ovary two-celled, cells four- to six- 

 ovuled, style slender, stigma capitate. Fruit ellipsoid, 

 fleshy, many-seeded, — J. D. IT. 



Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, transverse section of ovary; 

 5, fruit: — all but Jig. o enlarged. 



