but in the Cape House at Kew it is trained against a rafter, 
exactly as the long-known M. major is in the Temperate 
House, and grows six or seven feet high. The smell of 
the foliage is even stronger than that of the last-named 
plant, and exactly like it. 
In giving the name of Trimenianus to this plant, I had ~ 
the double pleasure of commemorating the services rendered 
to botany by Dr. Trimen, F.L.S., then the Editor of the 
Journal of Botany, and now Director of the Ceylon Botanical 
Gardens, it which it was first described; and those rendered 
to entomology by his brother, Roland Trimen, F.L.8., of 
Cape Town, who accompanied Sir Henry Barkly in his 
tour in Namaqua Land, where this plant was discovered. 
Desor. A branching shrub. Leaves three to five inches 
long, shortly petioled, glabrous above, white-tomentose 
beneath, pinnate; pinnules six to ten pair, opposite, linear 
or strap-shaped, coriaceous, often curved, obtuse or acute ; 
margins recurved, quite entire or obtusely coarsely serrate 5 
rachis winged, jointed at the insertion of the pinnules; 
margins of wings revolute, like those of the pinnules; 
stipules adnate at the base to the petiole, subulate. 
Racemes terminal, strict, erect, four to eight inches long ; 
peduncle and rachis stout, stiff; flowers-in whorls of four 
to six; bracts one-third of an inch long and under, ovate, 
acuminate, deflexed, equalling the pedicels. Calyx two- 
thirds of an inch long, base oblique; segments oblong, 
acuminate, deflexed after flowering, posterior lobe broad 
or concave, three-lobed, mid-lobe often produced, lateral 
Slender ascending. Petals four, deciduous, clawed, lan- 
ceolate, declinate, acuminate, waved, scarlet ; claws fleshy, 
_ cohering by their woolly margins. Disk fleshy, horse-shoe 
‘Shaped. Stamens four, persistent, didynamous, inserted 
within the disk, two posterior shorter, their filaments 
carinate below. Ovary oblong, four-celled ; style elongate, 
ascending ; ovules four, two-seriate in each cell. Fruit 
three-fourths of an inch in diameter, cruciately four-winged, _ 
wings reticulated, cells two- to four-seeded. Seeds very 
various in shape, pyriform or orbicular. 
Fig. A, flowering specimen ; 1, vertical section of flower, of the natural size; 2, 
rae enlarged ; 3, stamen, and 4, apex of style and stigma, Both much enlarged; 
5, fruit, of the natural size. to style and stigma, ‘9 
