Exeter Nursery, from the collection of Mrs. Halford of Newcourt, 
near Exeter; a lady ardently devoted to the cultivation of rare 
exotics. It was exhibited under the name of Strophanthus 
Stanleyanus, at the Devon and Exeter Horticultural Society’s 
Spring Exhibition, and gained a prize. The plant possesses 
additional interest, in our estimation, as being the one selected 
by Dr. Wallich and myself to bear the name of the family of 
Roupell, of whom not a few have served the cause of Botany : 
viz., Charles Roupell, Esq., of Charlestown, South Carolina, 
commemorated in many of the pages of Sir James HE. Smith’s 
‘Correspondence of Linnus ;’ Dr. Roupell of Welbeck Street, 
London, his grandson ; together with another grandson, Thomas 
Boone Roupell, Esq., a gentleman now high in the Civil Service 
of the E. I. Company, on the Madras Establishment ; while the 
talented lady of the latter is the authoress of a beautiful work 
about to issue from the press, illustrated by her own pencil, on 
Plants of South Africa. Hence the name is appropriately com- 
_ memorated in an African genus of no small beauty and fragrance. 
We are indebted to Mr. Bentham, who is now engaged in the 
preparation of the plants of the Niger Expedition, for the above 
generic character and description, which render any further 
botanical remarks on our part needless. If, as we trust, the 
plant comes into general cultivation, it cannot fail to be much 
prized ; if not for the application of the fruit (which may be 
better suited to an African than to an English palate), yet as- 
suredly for the size and beauty of colour of its flowers, no less 
than for their agreeable odour. W.J. H. 
Cur. This handsome, climbing, shrubby plant, being a native 
of Sierra Leone, consequently requires to be grown in a warm 
and moist hot-house. It is of free growth, and, being a 
smooth clean-leaved plant, not subject to insects, is well adapted 
for a trellis, or to train up a pillar or rafter ; and it will also 
form a bushy plant grown in a pot, if supported with a wire 
trellis, or by neat stakes. Good fresh loam, with a little leaf- 
mould, will suit it. As it is a fast grower, it requires water 
freely during summer; but care must be taken that the soil 
does not become stagnant. It is propagated by cuttings, which 
strike root readily when placed under a bell-glass, and the pot 
plunged in bottom heat. — It appears to be a shy flowerer ; for, 
although we have known it in cultivation for several years, we 
have not heard of its producing flowers, except in the collection 
above-mentioned. J. 8. , 
Fig.1. Calyx and pistil. 9. Stamens. 3. Pistil and perigynous scales. 
4. Stamen. 5. Section of the ovary :—magnified. 
