The specimen from which the drawing was prepared 
was sent to Kew by Lord Walsingham, F.R.S., in Sep- 
tember, 1904. It was taken from a plant ten feet high, 
growing out of doors in the garden of Mrs. Gwytherne- 
Williams, St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight, under the name of 
B. triphylla. The flowers are said to have a peculiar faint 
odour, or, according to the Flora Capensis, are strongly 
rue-scented., 
Descr—An erect, branched shrub eight to ten feet high, 
with subterete, leafy branches, thinly covered with grey, 
slender hairs. Leaves ternately verticillate, sessile, charta- 
ceous, elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, two to six inches long, 
half an inch to about two inches broad, acuminate, serru- 
late, shortly pubescent or glabrous, except on the veins 
beneath, resin-dotted beneath. Inflorescence an axillary, 
dichasial, three- to ten-flowered cyme, shorter than the 
leaves. Peduncles one to two inches long, shortly pubescent, 
spreading. . Pedicels two and a half to seven lines long, 
thickened above. Bracts and bracteoles ovate-lanceolate 
or lanceolate, about two lines long, caducous. Calye 
three to four lines long, viscid; segments ovate or 
elliptic, unequal, mostly acute. Corolla eight to nine lines 
long, six to eight lines broad, urceolate-globose, shining- — 
white, minutely red-dotted inside, viscid outside, somewhat 
leathery ; upper lip rather flat, four and a half to six lines 
long, seven to eight lines broad, very broadly two-lobed ; — 
lower lip shorter, ventricose, three-lobed ; lobes rounded, 
about two lines long, one and a half to two lines broad. _ 
Filaments curved and thickened at the base, those of the 
lower stamens shortly and obtusely spurred. Style about 
three lines long, thickened at the apex. Capsule oblong, — 
si to five lines long, shining, often three-celled.—S. A 
KAN. = 
Fig. 1, vertical section of the calyx, showing pistil; 2, vertical section of 
the flower; 3 and 4, anthers; 5 i : a 
pa Fone rs; 5, transverse section of the ovary :—all 
