Gomphia decorans, Lemaire ; but it agrees in all particulars with 
G. oliveformis, which name we do not hesitate to adopt. 
Descr: Shrubby. Our flowering specimen has not attained 
a height of more than three feet, but this is perhaps forced early 
into blossom by cultivation. In its native country it reaches to 
fifteen feet. Branches terete, green. Leaves alternate, glossy, . 
three to five or six inches long, petiolate, elliptical-lanceolate, 
short-acuminate, penniveined, finely serrulate at the margin, 
bright-green, subcoriaceous ; petiole short, with a pair of subu- 
late, caducous, brown stipules. Panicle terminal, subthyrsoid, 
a span long, its Granches subcorymbose. Flowers copious, bright 
yellow. Calyz of five, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, yellow sepals, 
scarcely tinged with green, even in the bud. Petals broad, obo- 
vato-spathulate, subunguiculate, spreading. Stamens five, sessile, 
broad subulate, orange-yellow, erect, connivent into a cone, 
opening at the apex by two pores. ‘The five ovaries are elevated 
upon a fleshy column, and surround the base of a thickened, 
Subulate, curved s/yle ; stigma a blunt point. 
Fig. 1. Leaf from a lower part of the plant,—natural size. 2. Flower from 
which the petals are removed. 3. Single stamen :—magnified. 4, Pistil and 
gynobase,—magnified. 
