in Zulu-land; and at Klip-River, Natal, bj Mr. W I G 

 who named it in compliment to Miss Burgess, of Birkenhead 

 The genus Dombeya is a very beautiful one, ah uliar to 



tropical Africa and its eastern islands, but scarcely extending so 

 far south as the Cape of Good Hope. Three Bpecies, 1 

 are described by Dr. Harvey, in his admirable 'Flora Capensis/ 

 as inhabiting Uitenhage and Natal, in the first volume; and 

 three more appeared in the Supplement to the second volume. 

 The author anticipates the discovery of others in the Natal dis- 

 trict, but, as he justly observes, scarcely one from them finer than 

 this. Its large fragrant flowers appeared with us in August. 



Descr. Our plant in the conservatory of Kew promises to be 

 arborescent, which, in little more than two years raised from the 

 seed, is ten feet high, moderately branched at the summit ; the 

 younger branches herbaceous, terete, and downy. Leave* alter- 

 nate, long-petiolate, six inches to a span long, cordately tive-lol 

 pubescently hirsute ; the lobe* acute, coarsely and unequally ser- 

 rated, terminal one acuminate. Stipules ovate, acuminate, at 

 length deciduous. Peduncle in our plant axillary, longer than 

 the petiole, downy, corymbose, bearing many large white 

 flowers, roseate in the disk, with the same tint extending into 

 the veins. Calyx in our plant ebracteolate, of five spreading, at 

 length reflexed lanceolate sepal*. Petal* obliquely subdeltoid, 

 very obtuse, concave. Column of stamen* short and cup-shaped 

 terminating in five sterile, long, linear- spathulate stamen*, be- 

 tween which, but not half their length, are generally three (some- 

 times two) fertile ones. Filaments filiform. Anther* oblong, 

 two-celled. Ovary globose, downy. Style filiform, shorter than 

 the sterile filaments, but longer than the fertile ones. Sfy 

 five, linear, reflexed, downy. — /. B. 



Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Portion of the stnmitiiferous column, with three fertile and 

 two sterile stamens. 3. Pistil: — all more or lens magm; 



