that this character, so constant in Rubzacee as a rule, isin this 
genus an inconstant one. 
C. obtusifolia was sent to Kew by M. Linden, of Brussels, 
under the name of Cascarilla grandifolia, which I do not 
find in any publication ; it grew to a considerable size in the 
Palm House, but never flowered. A cutting, however, given 
to Mr. Howard and placed in a stove, speedily flowered, and 
from it the accompanying drawing was made. 
The Peruvians, according to Mr. Spruce, call this plant 
‘‘ Azahar-sisa,” because the flowers smell like “ Agua de 
Azahar ” (orange-water.) 
Descr. A small glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, petioled, 
three to six inches long, elliptic or rarely more or less ovate 
or obovate, rounded at the tip, coriaceous, narrowed into the 
petiole, which is one to one and a half inch long; under- 
surface pale, nerves obscure. Flowers in terminal cymes, 
peduncles stout, one half to three-quarters of an inch long. 
Calyz-tube obconic or clavate; limb half an inch long, 
cylindric, coriaceous, deciduous, 5-fid above the middle, lobes. 
obtuse, unequal. Corolla white, very odorous; tube three 
inches long, somewhat dilated for half an inch at the throat ; 
limb spreading, segments five, oblong, rounded at the tip, 
suffused with red on the outer surface, imbricate and twisted 
in bud, with two segments inner and one outer. Stamens 
sessile in the throat of the corolla, long, narrow, their tips 
exserted. Disk conical; style slender; stigma bifid— 
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Fig. 1, Hstivation of corolla-lobes; 2, upper part of corolla laid open; 3, 
ovary, disk, style, and stigma; 4, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
