living plants and animals. The majority of these have been 

 sent to the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby; and the Royal 

 Gardens of Kew have not failed to benefit by that distin- 

 guished nobleman's love and patronage of science. To this 

 source, besides the plant now figured, we are indebted for the 

 " African Teak" (or " Oak" as it is often called, and still 

 unknown as to its Genus), the Napoleonea imperialism the 

 splendid Gardenia Stanleyana, MS. (shortly to be figured in 

 this work), and three other species of the Genus, the bril- 

 liantly-colored Thunbergia chrysops" (see our Tab. 4119), 

 and many other rarities. Our drawing was made at Kew, in 

 October, 1844 ; and the same plant was still flowering in 

 March, 1845. 



Descr. A low shrub ; with spreading, terete, rather tor- 

 tuous branches; and opposite, evergreen, entire, ovate or 

 oblong-ovate, subcoriaceous, waved, penninerved leaves. Pe- 

 tioles short, flat or slightly grooved above. Racemes terminal. 

 Pedicels opposite (brachiate or cruciate), drooping, bracteated 

 at the base ; bracteas lanceolate, submembranaceous, the 

 lowest pair leaf-like. Two other large, ovate, acute, opposite 

 bracteas are situated at the base of the calyx, and appressed to 

 it. Calyx large, colored (brick -red, like the calycine bracteas 

 and corolla), ample, somewhat inflated, subinfundibuliform, 

 deeply cut into four, erect, concave, acute, nerved segments. 

 Corolla twice as long as the calyx, orange-red or brick-color, 

 between campanulate and infundibuliform ; the limb two- 

 lipped; upper lip with two ovate, acute segments; lower 

 with three spreading ones. Stamens and style included. 



Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Pistil. ' 3. Transverse Section of the Ovary:— mag- 

 nified. 



