A tall, handsome, evergreen shrub, a native of Moreton 

 Bay, New Holland, where it was detected by Mr. Allan 

 Cunningham, and by him introduced to the Royal Gardens 

 at Kew, where it receives the ordinary treatment of green- 

 house plants, and blossoms in the months of May and June. 

 The flowers at first sight have a good deal the appearance 

 of those of the Orange, and the odour bears a still greater 

 resemblance to those much prized flowers ; but it is com- 

 bined with the aromatic warmth of Ginger. The foliage 

 when bruised diffuses a very terebinthaceous smell, arising 

 from the numerous pellucid glands, with which it abounds. 

 The Genus to which I have referred it, is the same with 

 Cyminosma, Gjertn., (of which a species is given at Tab. 

 3322 of the present work, the C. oblongifolia, A. C) and 

 Jambolifera, Linn. ; and, at first sight, would seem to 

 have as strong a claim to be referred to Aurantiace^ as 

 to Rutace^e. Endlicher places it in the " Genera Xan- 

 thoxylis affinia." Had it the beautiful and delicious fruit 

 of the Orange, it would be equally worthy of cultivation. 

 The fragrant and Orange-like flowers, will, however, always 

 recommend it as a desirable greenhouse plant. 



As regards the species, it possesses, probably, much the largest 

 flowers of any yet known to us, and by these, and the nature of the 

 stamens, and the different forms of the leaves, it may readily be distin- 

 guished from A. Endlickeri, and A. Baueri (from Norfolk Island), 

 figured in Schott's " Rutaceae," Tab. 2 and 3. 



Descr. A shrub, with us about six or seven feet high, everywhere 

 glabrous; the branches terete, green. Leaves opposite, or nearly so, 

 petiolate, the blade articulated on the petiole, three to five inches long, 

 oblong, coriaceous, entire, acute at both ends, penninerved and reticu- 

 lated between the principal nerves, dark green above, paler and rather 

 glossy beneath ; when held between the eye and the light, they are 

 seen to be full of pellucid dots, which contain a fragrant, essential oil. 

 Petiole from half an inch to an inch long, flat above, rounded beneath. 

 Peduncle axillary, much shorter than the leaf, bearing a cyme of from 

 three to five or six cream-coloured flowers. Calyx of four rounded, 

 concave sepals, membranaceous at the margin. Corolla of four mode- 

 rately spreading, ovate, thickish petals, four times as long as the calyx. 

 Stamens eight, alternately longer, broadly subulate, the margins dense- 

 ly ciliato-fimbriate, and so interwoven in the lower part of the filaments, 

 that these latter seem below to be united into a tube ; but by a little 

 force, they may be separated, and then it is seen that there is no actual 

 union of the filaments. Germen subglobose, four-lobed, densely clothed 

 with reddish hairs, four-celled, the cells two-seeded, the seeds, or 

 ovules, collateral. This yermen is seated on a large orange-coloured, 

 fleshy disk, four-lobed, the lobes again two-lobed. Style about as long 

 as the stamens, white, filiform, with a few spreading hairs at the base. 

 Stigma capitate, obscurely two- (or, perhaps, four-) lobed. 



Fig 1 Flower, from which the Petals are removed. 2. Pistil, and Glandular Disk. 3- 

 Two of the Stamens. 4. Germen cut through transversely, showing ths arrangement of the 

 Ovules in the Cells .—magnified. 



