- The plant has been for many years in cultivation in the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, having in all probability béen 
obtained from Messrs. Verschaffelt’s establishment, one of 
the oldest surviving correspondents of the Royal Gardens of 
Kew. It forms a bush in a tropical house three to four 
feet in height, flowering in May. The flowers are very 
fragrant. 
Descr.—A much-branched bush; branchlets, leaves be- 
neath, petioles and branches of the panicle hispidulously _ 
pubescent. Leaves four to five inches long, shortly — 
petioled, ovate or ovate-oblong, subacute, dark green and 
glossy above, swollen between the eight to ten pairs of 
deeply sunk nerves, paler beneath with raised nerves ; base 
rounded; margins recurved; stipules triangular, brown, 
acute, or acuminate. Panicle many-fiowered, very shortly 
peduncled; branches short, opposite; bracts minute ; 
pedicels short, stout. Calyx hispidulous, one-sixth of an 
inch long; tube hemispheric; lobes 5, short obtuse. 
Corolla pure white; tube five inches long, quite glabrous, 
slender, not or obscurely dilated towards the summit, limb 
oblong and erect in bud, with the lobes overlapping to | 
the left, five-partite, lobes spreading and recurved, linear- 
oblong, convex, tip rounded; mouth villous with white 
cellular hairs. Stamens five, inserted at the mouth of the 
corolla, erect; filaments very short, glabrous; anthers 
linear-oblong, margins of the cells villous. Ovary two- 
celled, crowned with a fleshy disk; ovules many; style — 
very long, filiform; stigma of two revolute, narrow, hispid — 
lobes.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, vertical section of calyx and ovary ; 3, portion 
of limb and upper part of tube laid open ; 4 and 5, stamens :—AU/ enlarged. 
