It is impossible, says Dr. Watticn, to conceive any thing 
more beautiful than this tree, when covered with its numer- 
ous rounded panicles of pink-coloured, very fragrant, large 
blossoms. It is a native of Nepal and Silhet, in the former 
country growing in great abundance on Nag-Urjooro and 
some of the other smaller hills in the valley ; also at Bechi- 
ako and Koolakan; it delights in exposed, rather naked 
situations, flowering, according to the locality in which it is 
found, nearly the whole year through. 
I can well conceive that the plant deserves this praise, from what I 
saw of it, ina comparatively small specimen, in the greenhouse of Mrs. 
Marryart, at Wimbledon; and still more so from the account with 
which Mrs. Wray has favored me of the individual from which the 
specimen here figured was taken. 
“The plant of Lucuxra from which the drawing was made, had 
been cultivated by us in a pot for two years, and with tolerable success ; 
but observing it to look very sickly, I determined to try the experiment 
of putting it into a large box, of which there are several, fitted at the 
back of a house, intermediate between the greenhouse and stove, and 
designed for climbers. This was done in March, and the plant soon 
began to show, by its vigorous shoots, how well this change of treat- 
ment suited its nature. By the month of October, it had attained a 
height of six feet and a half, each shoot being terminated by a head of 
flowers, similar to what was sent to you; the larger bunches, of which 
there were twenty-four, measuring two feet in circumference, besides 
thirty smaller ones. 
“ T am inclined to believe, that the atmosphere of a stove is too hot 
and close, and that of the greenhouse too cold and damp, considering 
the late season at which the Lucutra flowers ; whereas, in the place to 
which it was removed, we frequently give fire heat by day during 
autumn, thus allowing air to be admitted at the same time, and the win- 
dows to be opened without detriment from the external cold. The soil 
in which it grows consists of a mixture of loam and leaf mould. Iam 
not aware that any other peculiar management is required, except daily 
syringing during its growth, to destroy the red spider, to whose attacks 
it is extremely liable.” 
, Descr. small éree, in its native country about sixteen feet high. 
Bark thin, brownish, uneven. Branches opposite ; while young, red- 
dish and downy. Leaves opposite, spreading, ovate-oblong, acute at 
the base, acuminate at the point, four to six inches long, somewhat 
Conaceous, glabrous, villous on the ribs beneath. Petiole rounded, 
short. Stipules lanceolate, with a long point, half an inch long, very 
deciduous. Panicles large, terminal on the numerous branches, with 
te ramifications, bearing numerous linear, deciduous bracteas. 
ers numerous, large, showy, ve fragrant, of a beautiful pink or 
rose colour, forming an almost rounded mass upon the panicle. Germen 
inferior, obovate, downy. Calyz-segments longer than the germen, 
erect, lanceolate, unequal, green tinged with red, deciduous. Corolla 
salver-shaped : the tube slender, longer than the calyx ; the dimb spread- 
ip Of five deep, rounded, close-placed lobes, imbricated in estivation. 
S"amens inserted into the tube: the yellow anthers projecting a little 
beyond the tube. le fili ; ipartite, mceluded 
Riki ths tanc. Style filiform. ‘Stigma large, bipartite, m 
