allied to Carissa, differing chiefly, if not solely, in the want 

 of thorns. 



A. spectahilis is a native of the Western districts of South 

 Africa, from Albany to Port Natal, where it forms a large 

 shrub, with masses of white very fragrant flowers, on woody 

 sand-hills near the sea. It was introduced by Mr. B. S. 

 Williams, and exhibited by him in 1872. Our specimen 

 flowered at Kew in February of the present year. 



Desce. A large shrub, quite glabrous, except the inflores- 

 cence, which is slightly hairy or almost glabrous ; branches 

 stout, green, obscurely angled. Leaves three to five inches 

 long, narrowed into a very short thick petiole, coriaceous, 

 elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, acute, acuminate, or apiculate, 

 shining above with very obscure spreading nerves, paler and 

 opaque beneath. Flowers in dense fascicled axillary branched 

 short cymes, sometimes forming a globose head towards the 

 top of the branch, pure white, very sweet-scented ; peduncles 

 and pedicels very short ; bracts minute, broadly ovate. Calyx- 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate, green, subacute, hairy. Corolla-tube 

 three-quarters of an inch long, slender, slightly enlarged 

 upwards, sparsely hairy in the throat ; lobes spreading, ovate- 

 oblong, acute. Stamens included, inserted near the mouth of 

 the corolla, filaments very short ; anthers broadly ovate, with a 

 pubescent terminal claw. Stigma conical, hairy, emarginate. 

 Ovules attached towards the base of the septum. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, calyx ; 3, vertical, and 4, transverse section of ovary ; 5, 

 top of style and stigma ; 6, stamens :— all enlarged. 



