(of the introducer of which I find no record in the Gardens), 

 it is certainly not D. angulata, which is well figured at Tab. 

 2905 of this work, and which has very broad bracts, pink 

 flowers, and much less oblique petals; nor do I think it 

 agrees with any Mauritian species ; but it is identical with a 

 tropical African one, of which there are specimens in the 

 Hookerian Herbarium, collected in Abyssinia by Dr. Eoth, and 

 by Captain Grant on the banks of the Nile north of Chopeh, 

 in November, 1862.. It is further very nearly allied to, if 

 not identical with D. Schimperiana, A. Rich., of Abyssinia, 

 but that is a larger plant, with broader, more obtuse petals, 

 and a longer staminal tube. 



Descr. Our plant is a small bush, from four to five feet 

 high, sparingly branched, the branches slender, nearly gla- 

 brous; branchlets tomentose, with soft, spreading hairs. 

 Leaves four to seven inches long, deeply cordate-ovate, acu- 

 minate, obscurely angularly lobed, rather sharply toothed, 

 five- to nine-nerved, bright-pale-green, villous, with long 

 hairs, on both surfaces, those on the nerves beneath stellate. 

 Peduncles axillary, slender, about as long as the petioles, 

 bearing a simple or rarely subcompound corymb. Bracts 

 none at the base of the pedicels. Pedicels numerous, slender, 

 one inch long, pilose, with soft, spreading hairs. Flowers 

 pearly-white, one inch in diameter; bracts beneath the 

 flowers lanceolate, as long as and similar to the sepals. 

 Sepals narrow-lanceolate, one-third of an inch long. Petals 

 very obliquely obovate-cuneate, produced at one side into an 

 obtuse or acute point, white. Stamens fifteen, with pinkish 

 filaments and a short tube ; staminodes strap-shaped. Style 

 slender, pilose at the base; stigmas filiform. Ovary very 

 woolly.— J. RE. 



Fig. 1. Stamen and ovary. 2. Ovary: — both magnified. 



