Tas. 4205. 
FAGRAEA OBOVATA. 
Obovate-leaved Fagrea. 
Nat. Ord. LoGanrtacE&®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx basi bibracteatus, 5-partitus, lobis imbricatis, obtusis. Co- 
rolla infundibuliformis tubo superne subampliato, lobis obliquis per estivatione 
imbricatis demum patentibus. Stamina 5, medio tubo inserta, filam. subulatis 
subexsertis, anth. bilocul. subincumbentibus. Ovarium biloculare. Stylus fili- 
formis. Stigma peltato-depressum, Bacca corticata, ovalis, bilocularis, septo e 
valvis induplicatis duplici, (in F. awriculata demum 4-valvis, ex Blum.). Pla- 
cente pulpose. Semina pulposa, pulpa immersa, parva, crustacea. Albumen 
(ex Blum.) corneum, ex Wall. carnosum.—Frutices arboresve Indici, glabri. 
Ramuli sepius tetragoni. Folia opposita, ovalia, petiolata, integra, coriacea. Sti- 
pulee interpetiolares. Flores albi, in corymbum racemumve trichotomum terminalem 
dispositi. De Cand. 
Facra obovata; arborea, ramis obtuse tetragonis, foliis ellipticis obovatisve 
apice rotundatis seepe acuminulatis, panicula subeymosa, 3—6-flora ramis 
brachiatis, corollee limbo tubum equante, lobis obovato-rotundatis paten- 
tibus. 
Facrma obovata. Wall. in Fl. Ind. ed. 2. p. 33. (aon Bl. Rumph. v.1. t. 75.) 
De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 29. 
An exceedingly handsome stove-plant, both as to its foliage and 
the large cream-coloured flowers, which moreover are very fragrant. 
It has been long cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, 
plants having been sent by Dr. Wallich from Sylhet, where, as 
at Singapore, according to the same botanist, it is a native. With 
us it has never blossomed. For flowering specimens I am in- 
debted to the kindness of Mr. Shepherd, of the Botanic Garden, 
Liverpool. It flourishes in a moist hot stove and succeeds best 
with bottom heat. : ee 
The genus was named by Thunberg in compliment to his friend 
J. T. Fagreus, a Doctor of Medicine. 
Descr. With us, cultivated in a pot, it only becomes a shrub, 
five to six feet high ; in its native soil a middling sized tree, with 
stout stems and branches, the latter, at their extremities at least, 
green and herbaceous, four-sided. Leaves opposite, rather large, 
coriaceous, glabrous, as is every part of the plant, oval or subel-_ 
JANUARY lst, 1846, ; 
