ramosus." Whatever may be its size in its native country, 

 it is quite certain that in our stoves, it flowers readily in 

 the autumn, when not more than a foot high ; and recom- 

 mends itself by its handsome Tea-like evergreen foliage 

 even more than by its large, delicate white flowers. Mr. 

 Gardner gathered it in Goyaz, and it is distributed in his 

 collections as Laplacea, n. 3035. For our living plants 

 in the Royal Gardens of Kew we are indebted to His Grace 

 the Duke of Northumberland, and to Mr. Makoy of Liege. 

 Descr. A shrub, or small tree, in its native country ; but 

 with us bearing flowers copiously when not. more than a 

 foot high, much branched. Leaves alternate, oblong, 

 but approaching to obovate, acute, serrated in the upper 

 half, entire, and gradually tapering into a short foot-stalk, 

 the two sides unequal. Peduncles short, axillary, solitary, 

 or aggregated. Calyx of five imbricated, deciduous, rotun- 

 date, concave sepals, silky on the outside. Corolla of 

 five to eight obovate, white petals, silky on the outside, 

 emarginate at the apex. Stamens numerous. Filaments 

 subulate. Anthers shortly oval, two-celled. Ovary ovato- 

 globose, hairy. Styles five, expanding into as many broad, 

 spreading plates or stigmas. 



Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil. 3. Transverse section of the Ovary :- 

 magnified. 



