PiLumieriA acuminata. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 70. 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. 2. p. 20. 
PiumiertA acutifolia. Potr. Eneyc. Meth. Suppl. II. p. 667. 
(according to STEuDEL.) 
Prumierta obtusifolia. Lour. Fl. Cochin. v. 1. p. 144. 
(according to SreupEt.) 
Fos convolutus. Rumph. Amb. vol. 4. p. 85. tab. 38. 
Those who have a good stove and sufficient height should 
not fail to cultivate this beautiful tropical-looking plant. 
The foliage is large and handsome; the flowers copious, 
each three inches in diameter, and so deliciously fragrant 
that a very large house is scented throughout by a very few 
of the expanded flowers, and this scent is retained by the 
corolla for some time after it has fallen from the tree. 
These blossoms continue expanding in succession upon the 
same cyme for a period of many weeks. 'The whole plant 
is full, as Dr. Roxpureu says, of a tenacious white juice, 
which exudes plentifully on being wounded. It is from 
this circumstance, probably, that the French call the spe- 
cies of this Genus “ Franchipanier,” Franchipane being 
coagulated milk. It flowers throughout the summer months 
in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden, and till late in 
autumn. During the winter months even the leaves are 
deciduous, and the bare branches are then, it must be ac- 
knowledged, very unsightly. It loves heat, and with us 
the pot is always plunged in tan. 
Great difficulty attends the discriminating the different species of 
Promieria: with regard to the present there can be no doubt, of its 
being the original plant so named in the second edition of the “‘ Hortus 
ewensis.” It is a native of the East Indies, and was introduced to 
the Royal Gardens by Sir Josep Banks, in the year 1790. 
Drscr. A small tree, from ten to fifteen or twenty feet high, 
branched: the branches swollen and very succulent towards the 
extremities, and bearing the foliage only at the very apex: below are 
the scars of former years’ leaves. Leaves often a foot or more long in 
the blade, cuneato-lanceolate, of a rich deep green, acuminate, quite 
entire, plane, with numerous parallel nerves, tapering at the base, 
there channelled, and gradually passing into a thick, fleshy petiole. 
petiole is scarcely two inches long, channelled above, and not un- 
frequently near the middle, bearing one on each side, two small, une- 
qual, cucullate leaves upon comparatively long petioles, as shown in 
our figure. Below the present year’s foliage are the scars from whence 
the previous year’s leaves have fallen. From among these leaves, at the — 
apex of the branches, arises the petiole, four to five inches long, thick, ss 
yur (as is every part of the plant,) soon dividing into 4 
large cyme of fragrant flowers. Peduncles and pedicels jointed. Calyx 
small, cup-shaped, with five small, blunt, erect teeth. Corolla with a— 
rounded, glabrous, 
straight tube and five large, spreading, obliquely ovate, obtuse segments, 
yellow below, the upper half white: the outside also white or cream - 
coloured, faintly streaked with a darker hue. The mouth of thg corolla La 
much contracted, and the tube entirely includes the stamens and ptst 
