Tas. 4207. 
HEINSIA JSASMINIFLORA. 
Jessamine-flowered Heinsia. 
Nat. Ord. RusracE®.—PENTANDRIA MonoeynIa. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus obovatus, limbus 5-partitus, lobis foliaceis oblongis 
persistentibus. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, tubo tereti lobis calycinis longiore, 
intus ad partem superiorem hirsutissimo, lobis 5 ovalibus acutis undulatis. dn- 
there 5 lineares acute versus apicem tubi sessiles intra pilos quasi occultate in- 
cluse. Stylus filiformis tubo corolle brevior ; stigmata 2 linearia. Fructus glo- 
bosus calyce coronatus siccus durus indehiscens bilocularis. Placente 2 crasse 
septo adnate. Semina plurima aptera in placente superficie nidulantia.—Frutex 
(sew arbuscula) ramosissimus inermis, sed ramulis persistentibus spinas Sere simu- 
lantibus horridus. Folia opposita ovali oblonga acuminata breve petiolata. Stipulee 
utringue bine minime acute. Flores 3—4 ad apicem ramorum subracemosi pedi- 
cellati albi, Gardenize aut Randize sat similes. D.C. 
TLernsta jasminiflora. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 390. 
A very little known shrub, from Western Tropical Africa, pre- 
sented to the Royal Gardens of Kew by the Earl of Derby, who 
imported it from Sierra Leone, through Mr. Whitfield. The only 
description we have of it is by De Candolle, in the Prodromus— 
above quoted, where it is taken up from a specimen gathered by 
Smeathman, and deposited in the Herbarium of L’Héritier. It 
was named in compliment to the Philologist Heinsius, translator 
of Theophrastus. The shrub has a good deal the appearance of 
a Gardenia or Randia; with flowers, shaped indeed something 
like those of a Jessamine, that is, salver-shaped, but very much — 
larger :—the segments of the corolla broad and singularly striated, 
and often puckered (in those respects much resembling the sepals of 
some species of Clematis, particularly Clematis Viticella). It re- | 
quires the heat of a stove and has flowered with us in September. 
Descr. A middling-sized shrub in the solitary plant we have 
seen, glabrous in every part, with opposite and nearly erect 
branches, which are rounded, and green when young, soon turning» 
brown ; in age losing their leaves and often becoming spinescent. 
Leaves opposite, on very short petioles, alt 
or oblong-ovate, acuminate, rigid, subcoriaceous, 
JANUARY Ist, 1846. . : U 
almost sessile, narrow- 
entire, penml- 
