described so long. No less than eight Javan species are 
- enumerated in the Catalogue of the Buitenzorg Garden in 
Jaya, and sixteen are described as natives of that island by 
Miquel, but I am unable to refer M. amabilis to any of 
these. 
The specimen figured flowered at the Royal Gardens in 
August last ; it was presented by Mr. Bull, who imported 
the plant upwards of ten years ago. _ 
Descr. Quite glabrous, shrubby. Stem and branches 
four-angled ;. angles with short crisped or crenately waved _ 
wings. Leaves very large, a foot long by six to erght 
inches broad, sessile, obovate- or elliptic-oblong, acute, © 
often concave, quintuple-nerved, margin wavy, nerves very 
stout, texture thick, colour very bright-green ; base cuneate 
or cordate. Panicles terminal, erect, peduncled, pyramidal, 
much branched, a foot high, by six to nine inches broad; 
peduncle as thick as the finger, cylindric, smooth ; branches 
horizontal, whorled, and branchlets stout terete pale, the 
ultimate ones rosy, bracts none. Flowers shortly peduncled, 
rose-coloured, one and a half to two inches in diameter. 
Calyz-tube hemispheric, limb a short thin erect ring 
obscurely five-lobed or quite truncate. Petals obovate- 
oblong, obtuse, concave, thick. Stamens ten; anthers pale 
violet, slender, upcurved, connectives bigibbous at the base ; 
outta anthers about one-third smaller than the longer.— 
Fig. 1, Flower cut vertically; 2 : : i ] d 
wignadouie pitebipel cally; 2, calyx; 3 and 4, — ; 5, tip of style an 
