hitherto described. Upwards of twenty species of the genus 
are known, all, with the exception of an Indian one, natives 
of the Malayan Archipelago, Australia, and the Pacific 
Islands; some of them under the generic name of Drimy- 
spermum, Reinwardt (altered to Drymispermum by Reichen- 
bach) all agree in the short involucral leaves, numerous 
flowers in a head, broadly ovate pubescent perianth- 
lobes, and perhaps also in the climbing habit, which last 
character, however, I do not find to be attributed to the 
genus, or to any described species of it except P. ambigua. 
The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to Dr. Treub, 
Director of the Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens, for many 
interesting plants, including the above, which flowered in 
a stove in May of the present year, and was, like its 
allies the Daphnes, deliciously fragrant. 
Descr.—A climbing, glabrous shrub, branches terete, 
bark brown. JLLeaves four to five inches long, shortly 
petioled, elliptic, cuspidately acuminate, base acute, light 
green above, pale and yellower beneath, nerves about. six 
pairs, rather slender. Heads of twelve to fifteen flowers, 
axillary, and subterminal ; involucral bracts ovate, obtuse, 
herbaceous, green. Perianth pure white, or faintly flushed 
with dull yellow, minutely pubescent; tube three-quarters 
of an inch long, slender, hardly dilated upwards; limb as ~ 
broad across the broadly ovate obtuse lobes. Stamens eight, 
four inserted in the throat of the perianth, and four at the 
mouth; filaments rather longer than the perianth-lobes, 
slender, erect, faintly pubescent at their insertion; anthers 
all reaching the same level, very small, broadly oblong ; con- 
nective dorsally thickened and glandular. Disk crenulate. 
Ovary very small, ovoid, style slender ; stigma nearly on a 
level with the anthers, very large, depressed-capitate.— 
d,s 
Fig. 1, Upper part of perianth laid open, with stamens in situ; 2 and 
3, front and back view of anther; 4, disk and pistil:—All enlarged, 
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