1845, at the Chiswick Gardens, will fail to remember the extreme 

 beauty and fragrance of this truly desirable plant. 



Descr. A Shrub, in that plant from which our specimen came, 

 about three feet high, with rounded opposite branches. Leaves 

 opposite, ample, broadly ovato- or obovato-lanceolate, spreading, 

 six to eight inches to a foot long, fine dark green, acute or rather 

 acuminate, entire, penninerved, coriaceous, the lower ones tapering 

 downward into a stout footstalk, the upper ones smaller, more 

 ovate, sessile. Stipules broadly ovate, acuminate, closely appressed 

 to the branches and conjoined at the base. Panicle terminal, large, 

 much divided, with opposite branches, subtended by small bractea, 

 the ultimate branches in di-trichotomous peduncles. The flowers 

 in threes, sessile or nearly so, deliciously fragrant, pure white, but 

 quickly changing to yellow-brown. Stamens slightly protruded 

 beyond the contracted mouth. Style arising from a thick glandu- 

 lar ring, longer than the tube of the corolla and the stamens. 

 Stigma incrassated, bifid. 



Fig 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Ovary. 3. Transverse section of the ovary:— 

 magnified. 



