ments subulate, slightly hairy; anther sickle-shaped, terminating 
- in a long tube opening with a pore: at the base, on the junction 
with the filament, is a globose gland. Fruit, with its enveloping 
calyx-tube, globose, hispid. 
Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Calyx and Pistil (with two segments cut away). 3. im- 
mature fruit :—imagnified. 
We gladly occupy a vacant space on this leaf, which the Supplement 
does not afford this month, with the mention of a plant of great rarity and 
beauty, which promises to be a highly ornamental stove-plant. 
Compretum Pincianum ; foliis brevi-petiolatis oppositis amplis obovato-oblongis glabris punc- 
* tulatis integerrimis reticulatis tenui-acuminatis basi acutis, floribus parvis numerosissimis 
(coccineis) racemos compositos paniculatos speciosos formantibus, bracteis (seu foliis floralibus) 
ovatis, ramulis pedicellisque rufo-pilosis, calycibus subcylindraceis, dentibus rectis brevibus, 
petalis vix exsertis, staminibus styloque longe exsertis. 
Has, Sierra Leone; Mr. Whitfield. 
We trust, ere long, to be able to give a figure of this splendid species, 
which Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., cultivate successfully in their 
Nursery at Exeter. Our specific character is drawn up from original dried 
specimens, aided by a branch of the living plant, which shows the leaves 
to be above a foot long, of arich but delicate green, with a sort of metallic 
lustre, when viewed in a particular light. The panicles of flowers, in the — 
Herbarium, measure a foot and a half, clothing the copious terminal 
branches with innumerable red or purplish-red blossoms, having long 
exserted red stamens and styles. The bracteas, numerous as they are, by 
no means conceal the blossoms, but rather serve to increase their beauty 
by the admixture of another colour. The shrub cannot be called a climber, 
though there seems a slight tendency to lengthen itself: it is, in reality, of 
a stout and sturdy habit. In its native country, Mr. Whitfield observes, 
it forms a dense bush, not exceeding six feet in height, loaded with innu- 
merable richly-coloured blossoms. Its nearest affinity is probably the 
C. comosum of Don, whose panicles of flowers are said to be truly splendid ; 
but that species has the leaves “subcordate at the base”, whereas the 
leaves of C. Pincianum are remarkable acute at the setting on of the 
petioles. 
