a fugitive in England ; “S. M. la Reine des Francois, frappée de 
la beauté de cette fleur (at the garden of Neuilly), ayant chargé 
M. Redouté d’en faire la peinture, cet artiste celébre a bien 
voulu communiquer & M. Guillemin un échantillon de la plante,”’ 
&c. Our own knowledge of this amiable personage suffices to 
assure us that such a change would be considered no compliment 
to herself. The flowers have a honey-like smell. 
Descr. Arborescent, with a dense crown of branches and 
copious foliage. The young herbaceous éranches and nascent 
leaves, accompanied by large, cordate, afterwards deciduous 
stipules, are exceedingly viscid. Leaves on long petioles, the 
largest of them a span and more Jong, cordato-rotundate, 
five-angled (the smaller ones three-angled), the angles or lobes 
acuminate, the margins serrated. From the axils of the leaves 
towards the extremity of the branches, the peduncles appear, a 
span long, bearig two cordate dracteas above the middle. ‘The 
flowers of the young capitulum are clothed by the large deci- 
duous bracteas (one to each flower), and at the base of the capi- 
tulum three or four such bracteas form an imperfect involucre. 
These bracteas disappear on the full expansion of the many 
flowers into a globose head, four inches and more in diameter. 
Pedicels hairy. Calyzx-segments ovate, acuminate, hairy exter- 
nally. Petals five, twisted, broad-cuneate, pure white, the base 
deeply dyed with crimson. Staminal tube urceolate, bearing 
five perfect short stamens, and five elongated sterile i/aments. 
Ovary hairy, globose. Style divided at the top into five reflexed 
branches. WW. J. H. 
Cuxr. This is a tropical, soft-wooded, branching tree, of quick 
and robust growth, soon arriving at a height that renders it 
unsuitable for hothouses of the ordinary dimensions. In 
the Royal Gardens it has rapidly attained the height of up- 
wards of twenty feet; but, as it branches freely, it may, with 
management, be kept within bounds by frequently cutting back 
the leading shoots. It grows readily in light loam, and should 
be rather freely supplied with water, as its numerous fibrous 
roots take it up very quickly, and the size and texture of its 
leaves present a large and free evaporating surface. It is easily 
increased by cuttings, planted under a bell-glass, the pot being 
plunged in bottom heat. 7. &. | 
Fig. 1. Flower from which the petals are removed :—magnified. 
