Tas. 4466. 
ROUPELLIA Grata. 
Cream-fruit. 
Nat. Ord. APocyNEZ.—PENTANDRIA MonoGynIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus glandulis baseos (circa 12) in annulum dispositis. 
Corolle tubus infundibuliformis ; faux coronata ligulis 10 equidistantibus basi in 
annulum connatis; limbi lacinie 5, late, estivatione sinistrorsum convolute. 
_ Stamina tubo inserta, inclusa, filamenta brevia, anthere sagittate longe acumi- 
nate. Stylus filiformis, apice in massam 5-sulcatam antheris cohzrentem dila- — 
tatus, ultra dilatationem vix productus et obscure emarginatus. Nectarium 0. 
Ovaria ? Fructus (fide R. Br.) Voacange v. Urceole.—Gen. nov. e tribu Plu- 
mieriearum et subtribu Tabernemontanearum.—Frutex glaberrimus, habitu Taber- 
nemoihtanas Africartas referens. Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, semipedalia, 
oblongo-elliptica, breviter acuminata, basi aculeata, crassiuscula, venis primaris a 
costa media divergentibus haud crebris subtus prominulis, rete venularum parum 
conspicua ; petioli basi parum dilatati, linea transversali conjuncti et intus glan- 
dulis parvis acutis stipuleformibus aucti. Cymze terminales, sessiles, dense 6—8- 
Jlore, fere umbellaformes. Bracteze ovato-lanceolate acute acuminate dorso cari- 
nate, 14-2 lin. longe. Pedicelli bracteis longiores, calyce breviores. Calycis lobi 
obovati, 6-8 lin. longi, membranacei, apice colorati. Corolla alba pallide roseo- 
tincta, tubus sesguipollicaris, superne ampliatus, intus extusque glaber ; \acinie 
late obovate, margine crispe, pollice paullo longiores. Coronze ligule Janceolato- 
lineares, erecta, pulchre rosea, 4—5 lin. longa. Stamina ad originem partis am- 
pliate ubi inserta. Filamenta brevia, crassa, leviter papulosa. Antherarum 
acumen tubum corolle fere superans, auricule baseos breves recta, pars media tantum 
perry Ovarium disco crassiusculo haud vero in nectarium producto insidens.— 
entham. 
RovrELLia grata. 
Rovpetta grata. Wallich et Hook. MSS. 
Cream-rruit. Afzelius in “ Sierra Leone Report, 1794. p. 113. n. 7.” Brown, 
App. to Tuckey’s Narr. p. 449. 
It is with no small degree of pleasure that we are enabled to 
give a representation of a very handsome and very fragrant plant 
of tropical Africa, noticed by Afzelius as the Cream-fruit, so called, 
we presume, from the use occasionally made of the cream-like 
juice of the fruit, but of which little seems to be known beyond 
the bare mention of it under that name by Afzelius and Mr. 
Brown. It is a native of Sierra Leone; (introduced to our 
stoves, we believe, by Mr. Whitfield,) and, in May 1849, we were 
favoured with beautiful flowering specimens by Mr. Pince of the 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1849. 
