The Genus Saurauja seems to differ in no particular from 

 Apatelia, De Cand., and Palava, R. and P., and the species js 

 of which, twenty-six being' enumerated by Steudel in his • 

 " Nomenclator" (to which may be added S. barbigera and 

 /S.pedunculata lately figured in Hook. Ic. Plant. tab./31, 

 J I and /T41 and /1 42), have a considerable resemblance one 

 / with another, and inhabit the tropical parts both of the Old 

 and of the New world. Our species is, perhaps, most 

 nearly allied to S. pedunculata; but differs in its foliage, 

 panicles, &c. 



Descr. This fine plant would appear to attain to the 

 size of a large shrub; its young: branches, peduncles, and 

 petioles sparingly clothed with short, appressed, scattered, 

 ferruginous bristles. Leaves from six and eight inches to a 

 foot long, obovato-lanceolate, ctmeate below, shortly acu- 

 minate at the apex, duplicato-serrate, glabrous, except on 

 the principal nerves, which, on both sides, are beset with 

 the same short, appressed, ferruginous bristles, which clothe 

 the other parts of the plant, pale beneath. Panicles axil- 

 iary, copious, very large, and many times branched. Flow- 

 ers about three-quarters of an inch broad when fully ex- 

 panded, exceedingly numerous and fragrant. Calyx of five 

 ovate, spreading sepals. Corolla of five, spreading, obcor- 

 date petals, united at their bases by means of the numer- 

 ous stamens. Filaments subulate, with long, spreading 

 hairs at the swollen base. Anthers opening with two 

 oblique pores at the apex. Germen roundish, glabrous. 

 btj/les 5. Stig?nas capitate. 



cXTaLpfcS* .V? °Vi e S etals and Stamens - 3 - Stamen. 4. 

 Ualyx and Fistil. 5. Section of the Germen -.-^magnified. 



