Tab. 4132 

 LUCULIA Pinciana. 



Mr. Pinces Luculia. 



Nat. Ord. Rubiace^e. — Pentandria Monogynia. 

 LUCULIA. Sw. (Supra Tab. 3946.) De Cand. Prodr. 4. p. 357. 



Luculia Pinciana ; cordite limbo tuberculis quinque didymis*. 



At the commencement of a new or Third Series of the 

 Botanical Magazine, it is with no ordinary pleasure, that we 

 are able to present our readers with one of the most lovely 

 and most fragrant plants that it has been our lot to publish 

 in any of our volumes. Much deserved praise was bestowed 

 on the Luculia gratisswm (Tab. 3046) by our fair corre- 

 spondent who communicated that lovely shrub : but it may be 

 said, without diminishing aught from that species, that the 

 present far excels it, no less in the size and delicacy of its 

 flowers, than in their powerful, yet agreeable fragrance. As 

 a species, too, it is totally distinct from that just mentioned ; 

 the only hitherto described one of the Genus. In stature 

 and general aspect, the two appear to accord : but the pre- 

 sent has broader and shorter leaves, with much more com- 

 pact (closely-placed) nerves, and the limb of the corolla has 

 five pairs of prominent tubercles ; one pair at the sinus of 

 each lobe. It was raised from seeds received from Nepal by 

 Mr. Pince, (to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for a 

 plant,) at his Nursery, Exeter, and is cultivated in the green- 

 house. I may observe, that the specimen, figured here, is 

 but a portion of the great compound cyme that was sent, 

 and which would have required a folio plate to render it 

 adequate justice. 



Descr. A shrub, attaining to some feet in height, much 

 branched, the branches opposite. Leaves oval, rather than 



By which character it is at once distinguished from the only other 

 species, ° ' 



L. gratissima ; corolla; limbo etuberculato. 

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