‘Tab. 2539), grown in the shade. It possesses, in reality, a 
brighter-coloured and more brilliant flower than the much- 
vaunted M. superba; and we are anxious that justice should be 
rendered to the species in our present Plate. Blossoming at the 
same time and in the same stove with J. superba, the differ- 
ences are very apparent and constant. In our plant we have 
the lamina of the petals broadly obovate ; and these are not only 
refracted, but have the suddenly acuminated apices revolute or 
retroflexed, and are only undulated at the margins above the 
middle; whereas in J/. superba the petals, linear-lanceolate, are 
refracted indeed, but straight (not revolute at their apices), and 
they are undulato-crisped for their whole length. J/. virescens 
is an inhabitant of Senegal, the Congo; we possess it from the 
interior of Natal, from Abyssinia, Mozambique, and it seems to 
be a native of Madagascar. We find it in gardens named /. 
Plantii and M. Leopoldit. 
Dxscr. The habit and foliage of this species are quite like 
those of J. superba, but the leaves are smaller, mostly cirrhi- 
ferous ; when destitute of cirrhi the plant is G. simplex of Lin- 
neus. ‘The flowers too have the same general structure as in 
M. superba, but they are larger and more showy. ‘The petals 
are broadly obovato-spathulate, soon refracted: the apices are 
suddenly acuminated and always retroflexed or revolute, and the 
upper half only has the margins undulated; the claw and the 
lower half are yellow, sometimes with a faint streak of green. 
Stamens and pistil (with the curiously geniculated style) as in 
the Indian species. 
Fig. 1. Section of ovary. 2. Stigmas :—magnified. 
