of four or six species that inhabit that group of islands, and 

 a plant which could not well have escaped Forster's notice. 

 It is a very handsome small tree, almost hardy in the west 

 of England, quite so in the Scilly Islands, where Mr. Augus- 

 tus Smith has flowered fine specimens in the open air. It 

 often passed for C. indivisa in the nurseries, but that, as is 

 now well known, is a totally different plant, with a much 

 broader, yellow-green, strongly-veined leaf, and a drooping 

 panicle of much larger flowers. The plant from which the 

 accompanying drawing was made, flowered in the temperate 

 house at Kew, in June, 1866. 



Descr. Trunk slender, twelve to twenty feet high, branch- 

 ing at the top when old. Leaves two to three feet long, en- 

 siform, an inch and a quarter to two inches broad, slightly 

 contracted above the base, with numerous fine, parallel, 

 striated veins, and no obvious midrib, dark green. Panicle 

 very large, erect, copiously branched. Flowers most abun- 

 dant, crowded, white. Perianth-tube very short, limb spread- 

 ing, one-third of an inch in diameter, inner segments 

 toothed irregularly in the margin. Berry as large as a small 

 pea, white, with black shining seeds. — J. ]). H. 



Fig. 1. Eeduced figure of whole plant. 2 and 3. Base and apex of leaf. 

 4. Branch of panicle. 5. Bud. 6. Flowers. 7. Ovary. 8. Transverse 

 section of do. Fig. 5-8, magnified. 



