abundantly, and the plant appears to be of easy culture 

 in a cool stove, flowering when eighteen inches or two 

 feet high. I should, therefore, say, seeing how deliciously 

 fragrant its blossoms are at night, (less, however, in the 

 day,) that it possesses sufficient merit to render it rather a 

 general favorite in collections. It flowers in the autumn 

 and early winter, and, probably, will do so for many 

 months in the year." It is nearly allied to C. strigillatum 

 (Ruiz and Pavon) of Peru, and that has cordate leaves. 



Descr. A straggling shrub, everywhere, except the 

 upper surface of the old leaves and the inside of the corolla, 

 clothed with a dense, stellate tomentum; but especially on 

 the underside of the foliage. Leaves alternate, three, four, 

 and five inches long, ovato-lanceolate, entire, penninerved. 

 Spikes of flowers axillary, sometimes sessile or nearly so, 

 but more generally pedunculated, always shorter than the 

 leaves. Calyx bracteated, tubular, with the five teeth about 

 one-half the length of the tube. Corolla pale yellowish- 

 green, the tube twice the length of the calyx, very slender, 

 dilated and campanulate at the apex, where the limb is 

 set on, which forms five spreading, ovate lobes. Fila- 

 ments short, arising from the top of the slender part of the 

 tube, without teeth. Anthers two-lobed. Ovary on a 

 fleshy base. Style rather longer than the tube of the 

 corolla. Stigma capitate, depressed. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. : — magnified. 



