flowered in the Temperate House for the first time in January 
of the present year. 
Desc. A small tree, with opposite silky branchlets ; 
branches covered with brown bark. Leaves opposite, one to 
two inches long, obovate or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, with 
an apiculus formed by the swollen tip of the decurrent mid- 
rib, quite entire or toothed towards the tip, coriaceous, con- 
tracted at the base into a short petiole, upper surface bright 
green and shining, under surface glabrous or clothed with silky 
pubescence. Cymes terminal and terminating short lateral 
branches ; laxly 6-10-flowered, shortly peduncled, very silky ; 
bracteoles small. Flowers shortly pedicelled, one-half to 
three-quarters inch in diameter. Calya-tube adherent, silky ; 
lobes five, unequal, oblong, subacute. Coro//a coriaceous, 
golden yellow, tube short, broad ; lobes five, spreading, orbi- 
cular, rather concave, imbricate. Stamens two, inserted near 
the base of the corolla; filaments short, broad, ending in a 
dilated connective bearing two sinuous anther-cells; pollen 
simple, globose. Ovary almost wholly sunk in the calyx- 
tube, its crown hemispheric ; style ‘short, stigma broad, 
obscurely 2—4-lobed; ovules very many, on two parietal bifid 
placentz that project into the axis of the cell, and subse- 
quently coalesce, forming a 4-celled ovary. Capsule 4-celled, 
crown septicidally 2-valved, the valves bifid and splitting 
the style into four. Seeds very numerous, oblong, testa 
smooth, embryo clavate, minute near the base of the fleshy 
albumen.—J, D. A. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary; 2, corolla laid open; 8 and 4, stamens :—all 
magnified. 
