Blume, that author has no doubt rightly referred it to that genus, 
of which he gives three specimens and one doubtful one. All 
are natives of the Malayan peninsula or islands. Messrs. Whitley 
and Brame, appear to have first imported it into Europe. 
The name is probably given in compliment to some botanist 
with whose merits I am unacquainted. 
Dzscr. Our plant is scarcely a foot high, dichotomously 
branching, woody below, everywhere glabrous. eaves opposite, 
subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, somewhat waved, 
penninerved, the nerves almost horizontally patent. Corymds 
terminal, almost sessile. Bracteas minute, squamiform, acute, 
appressed. Calyz of five, deep, ovate, obtuse, imbricating seg- 
ments, each with a large, oval gland at the apex. Corolla salver- 
shaped; tube very long, slender, white, dilated at the mouth 
and there hairy within, where the small, almost sessile, linear 
anthers are inserted and included. imé of five large spreading 
obovato-elliptical segments, of a pale very delicate rose-colour, 
and having a deep rose-coloured rmg round the faux. Ovaries 
two, small, hairy, combined, obtuse, at each side of which is a 
subulate gland. Style as long as the tube, slender, filiform. 
Stigma thickened, and two-lobed at the joint. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and Portion of the style. 2. Pistil. 3. Tube of the corolla 
laid open. 4. Ovaries and two glands cut through transversely :—magnified. 
