indebted for the possession of it to that liberal cultivator. 

 A slight examination of the flowers and fruit and stipules 

 will, however, show that it has nothing to do with Sipanea, 

 and that it is one of the Hedyotidete; — a new Genus, to 

 which Mr. Bentiiam has given the name of Pentas, allied, 

 as that gentleman observes, to Virecta, and to which pro- 

 bably the Virecta ? elatior, De Cand., Prodr., 4. p. 415, 

 (Sipanea elatior, A. Rich.) from Angola belongs, as a new 

 Rubiaceous plant* of Vogel, gathered at Accra during 

 the late unfortunate Niger expedition, undoubtedly does. 

 So that, although not so stated, there is every reason to 

 believe the plant is from tropical Africa. 



Descr. The plant is about a foot high, scarcely shrubby : 

 branches all herbaceous, rounded, hairy. Leaves also hairy, 

 opposite, ovate, or broad-oblong and acuminate, tapering 

 at the base into a broad, short footstalk. Stipules large, 

 plurisetose. Flowers in large corymbs of a delicate pur- 

 plish flesh colour, which, when home, as is frequently the 

 case, upon the several branches of one small plant, exhibit 

 a very lively appearance ; and then: is almost a continued 

 succession of them for a great pari of the year. Flowers 

 And fruit, as described in the Generic Character. 



* P '. parviflora (Benth.) ; foliis ovatis v. ovali-oblongis acuminatis basi 

 angustatis vix ad venas puberulis, corolla? tubo calyce 2 — 3-plo longiore, 

 styli ramis brevibus, capsular valvulis brevissime liberis. 



Hab. Western tropical Africa, near Accra. Dr. Vogel. 



The Hedyotis pentandra, Schum. Beskv. PI. Guin. p. 71. is, probably, 

 a fourth species of this Genus, or else a Virecta. Benth. 



Fig. 1. Flower, with one Segment, of the Calyx removed, and the Corolla 

 laid open. 2. Ovary cut through transversely : — magnified. 



