from the Belgian gardens, and printed (without a word of 
description or remark) in Linden’s Catalogue of 1855. It is 
probably a native of Columbia or Guiana; and is certainly 
possessed of great beauty both in the foliage and in the great, 
Clusia-like flower. It blossomed with us in June, 1858. 
Descr. With us, Gustavia insignis.constitutes a shrub three or 
four feet high, a good deal branched. eaves a span and more 
long, dark-green, glossy, obovato-lanceolate, acuminated at the 
point, much attenuated at the base, and sessile or nearly so; 
veins pinnated, rather strong: the margin towards the apex 
coarsely and irregularly spinuloso-serrated, the base and apex 
entire. Peduncles from the axils of the upper leaves, in our 
plant a solitary and single flower (probably sometimes racemose 
and few-flowered), stout, glabrous, terete, each two to four inches 
long, with a few small, broad, ovate bracts at the base, and two 
opposite ones at the base of the ovary. Calyx (with its inferior 
. ovary) urceolate, almost like that of the Pomegranate, the éwde 
turbinate, the dim of six, broad-ovate or rounded lobes, at first 
(in bud) erect, at length spreading. Corolla very large, five to 
six inches in diameter. Petals in our specimens six, broadly 
obovate, cream-white, concave, spreading, externally tinged with 
rose-colour. Stamens extremely numerous, in many series, com- 
bined at the base only, hence monadelphous, arising as it were 
from a fleshy ring. Filaments rose-colour towards the apex, and 
there a little clavate. Anthers orange-colour, articulated on the 
apex of the filament, two-celled. Ovary circular, turbinate, incor- 
porated with the tube of the calyx, expanded and depressed at 
the top. Stigma very small, short, crowned by a minute four- 
lobed stigma. 
Fig. 1. Portion of the staminal tube, with filaments and anthers, magnified. 
2. Ovary and calyx. _8. Vertical section of ovary and calyx. 4. Transverse 
section of ovary, showing the four cells and numerous ovules :—zaé. size. 
