Tar. 6350. 

 BONDELETIA odobata, var. bkevifloka. 

 Native of the West Indies ? 



Nat. Ord. Rubiace*:.— Tribe Ronbeletie*:. 

 Genus Rondeletia, Linn. (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 48.) 



o™tn , ™ If' hrevi fi° m ^ ramis tomentosis.foliisbreviterpetiolatis late 

 ovato-oblongis oblongo-rotundatisve obtusis v. subacutis supra scaberulis 



S !7 M ^ SUl)t " S f, d C °l tam " erv0S( l ue P ube ™^, stipulis late triangu- 

 lanbus cuspidatis, corollas tubo calycis laciniis linearibus vix duplo Wiore 

 ciisco tunudo tomentoso, glandulis inter lobos calycis minutis v. 0. 



The subject of the present plate has been long cultivated 

 at Jtew, under the name of Rondeletia speciosa. a plant first 

 published in Loddiges' 'Botanical Cabinet,' with a wretched 

 ngure, and no botanical description, and which is said closely 

 to resemble Jacquin's violet-scented R. odorata, but to differ 

 in not having the slightest scent. Now the plant here 

 figured is scentless, and has much smaller flowers, with a far 

 snorter corolla-tube than either the native Herbarium speci- 

 men or the published figure of R. odorata and speciosa, and 

 must hence be either a new species, or a variety of one or the 

 otner of these. After a careful comparison of the published 

 ngures of R. odorata by Jacquin (Hist. Stirp. Americ. t. 61), 

 and by Lmdley in the ' Botanical Eegister ' (tab. 1905), and 

 tnat by Fitch m the < Botanical Magazine ' (tab. 3953), with 

 pose of R. speciosa .in Loddiges (Bot. Cab. t. 1893), and 

 in ^axton's Magazine (v. ii. t 242, and v. xvi. t. 354), 

 I cannot doubt these two being the same species, as has 

 maeed been indicated by Lindley. And a further compari- 

 son ot the Kew plant with all those plates and with Her- 

 barium specimens of R. odorata, seems to me to indicate it as 

 only a shorter coroUad variety of that same plant. In the 

 botanical Magazine ' plate specimens, there appear to have 



march 1st, 1878. 



