that have not yet been introduced. The plant here figured 
flowered in a cool pit; the species is, however, a tender 
one, and usually cultivated in a stove. It is deliciously 
fragrant. 
Descr. An evergreen shrub; branches terete and leaves 
quite glabrous, young shoots and peduncles silkily pubescent 
with brown hairs. Leaves four to seven inches long, 
narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, thin but 
rigid, bright shining green above, darker beneath; nerves 
faint, nervules finely reticulated; petiole one-half to one 
and a half inch long, grooved in front, margins of the 
groove ciliate. Flowers three inches in diameter, nodding, 
on curved peduncles one-half to one inch long. Sepals 
oblong and subspathulate, convex, pale yellow-brown, 
obtuse. Petals nearly as long, outer obovate-oblong, imner 
clawed, all dull yellow and very concave. Column of 
stamens and pistil small for the size of the flower, about 
half an inch long. Stamens appressed to the ovaries, 
linear, subsessile ; connective produced into a triangular tip. 
Ovaries subcylindric; stigma decurrent, recurved at the 
tip, grooved down the centre; ovules two.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen ; 2, ovaries :—both enlarged. 
