leaves, and shorter than the leaves, erect, bearing two or three 
deciduous, spathulate, green bracteas below the calyx. Calyx 
of five very concave, rotundato-elliptical, erect, slightly hairy 
sepals. Petals five, obovate, white, spreading, obliquely twisted. 
Stamens very numerous. Ovary globose, obscurely five-lobed, 
five-celled, hairy. Style columnar. Stigma peltate, of five, large, 
rounded, somewhat leafy, rays or lobes, the centre umbilicated. 
Fruit the size of a large garden-pea, globose, depressed at the 
top, half five-valved, woody. W. J. . 
Cunr. A neat evergreen tea-like shrub, a native of Java, 
which flowers freely when of small size. Not being aware of 
its locality, we have treated it as a stove plant; but, judging 
from the nature of many of its allies, we may be right in 
presuming that it is from an elevated and temperate region, 
and if so, it would probably succeed in a warm greenhouse. It 
grows readily in loam and peat or leaf-mould, and is easily 
increased by cuttings. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of the ovary :—magnified. 
