seeds sent to him five years ago from Mexico, e regione fri- 
gida, and flowering specimens were transmitted to us in 
May, 1841. A more desirable plant has not been intro- 
duced for a long time to our collections, and we have great 
hopes it may prove hardy. Certainly the slight protection 
of a frame will defend it from our severest cold.—It was 
found at Toluca by Anprieux, and is n. 262 of his collec- 
tion. 
Descr. A graceful shrub ; with glabrous, erect branches, 
clothed with shining, pale brown bark in the older portions, 
and there deciduous ; yellow-green tinged with red in the 
younger ones. Leaves alternate, on short, reddish petioles, 
from four to five inches long, coriaceous, oblong-lanceo- 
late, acute at both ends, dark-green above, pale and glau- 
cous beneath, the margins closely, though unequally, glan- 
duloso-serrate, penninerved, the nerves conspicuous on both 
sides. From the apex of a branch, and generally from the 
axil of two annotinous shoots, a rather copious compound, 
or paniculated, many-flowered raceme arises, the branches 
patent, hairy, the flowers secund and pendent. Pedicels 
about two lines long, hairy, thickened upwards, the hairs 
slender and glandular at the apex. Bracteas subulate, red, 
shorter than the pedicels. Calyx of five deep-red, spread- 
ing, ovato-acuminate teeth. Corolla almost pure white, 
urceolate, pubescenti-hirsute, the limb with five blunt, 
spreading teeth. Stamens ten, erect, half the length of the 
corolla. Filaments much dilated above the base. Anthers 
tawny, each cell opening by a pore at the apex, and at the 
back of the pore is a reflexed awn. Germen_ globose, 
thickly set with green tubercles, and surrounded by 4 
fleshy, obscurely ten-toothed disk. Style thick, longer 
than the stamens. Stigma obtuse, green. mere 
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Fig. 1. Flower with its Pedicel and Bracteas. 2. Corolla laid open to 
show the Stamens and Pistil. 3. Single Stamen. 4, Pistil and Disk. 
Section of the Ovary :—magnified. 
