Tas. 4636. 
OXYANTHUS trvsiriorus. 
Long-flowered Oxyanthus. 
Nat. Ord. Rupiacre.—PrEnTANDRIA Monocynia. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovatus, limbus brevis, acute 5-dentatus. Corolle tubus 
longissimus, faua glabra, limbus 5-partitus regularis, laciniis oblongis acuminatis. 
Stamina 5 e fauce libera exserta; anthere acutissime. Stylus filiformis, apice 
clavatus, ultra antheras exsertus. Fructus bilocularis, verisimiliter baccatus.— 
Frutices Guineenses. Folia elliptica, acuminata, breve petiolata. Stipule oblongo- 
triangulares, tarde decidue. . Pedunculi azillares, racemoso-corymbost. De Cand. 
Oxyanruus tubiflorus; ramulis calycibus foliisque subtus obscure puberulis, 
foliis brevissime petiolatis obovato-oblongis brevi-acuminatis supra glaber- 
rimis basi ineequilateraliter subcordatis, stipulis ovato-acuminatis adpressis, 
racemis solitariis axillaribus plurifloris, calycis dentibus subulatis, coroll 
tubo foliis duplo longioribus. 
OXxYANTHUs tubiflorus. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 376. 
GarpeEnta tubiflora. Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 183. : 
OxYaNTHUS speciosus. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. p- 371. (not De Cand. nor 
Sims.) 
_Sent from Knowsley, by the late Earl of Derby, who received 
his plants from Sierra Leone. This plant proves to be the same 
as one long cultivated in the Royal Gardens of Kew, and given 
as Oxyanthus speciosus of De Candolle, in the second edition 
_ Of the ‘ Hortus Kewensis,’ but which De Candolle, in his ‘ Pro- 
dromus,’ pronounces not to be his speciosus (Ann. du Mus. vol. ix. 
p. 218, and Prodr. vol. iv. p- 376), which has flowers much shorter 
than the leaves. The 0. speciosus of Sims and Lindley (Coll. 
Bot. t. 18) is the Airsutus of De Candolle. The present is a 
stove-plant, bearing its fragrant remarkably long blossoms in July. 
Descr. A moderate-sized shrub, with the young branches at 
least puberulous (as is the underside of the younger foliage). 
Leaves opposite, four to five inches long, obovate-oblong, shortly 
vcuminate, penniveined, entire, glabrous especially above, the 
base somewhat cordate, but the two sides unequal. Petiole 
very short. Raceme solitary, axillary, on a very short peduncle, 
MARCH lst, 1852. 
