Drscr. Our plant is about three feet high, erect, but with 
an inclination to be a climber; dranches glabrous, or nearly so. 
Leaves opposite, on very short petioles, ovato-lanceolate, acute, 
evergreen, the younger ones pale yellow-green, all glabrous. Pe- 
duncles solitary, axillary or terminal, much longer than the leaves, 
bearing a cyme of several, white, very fragrant flowers. Calya 
divided almost to the base into five, reflexed, lanceolate, ciliated 
segments ; within the calyx are several jagged scales at the base 
of the corolla. Corolla white: the tude contracted below the 
middle (hairy within at the mouth) ; /imdé of five, oblique, obovato- 
spathulate, spreading, waved J/odes, their margins reflexed. An- 
thers 5, subulato-sagittate, sessile, collected into a cone which 
unites itself with the stigma. At the base of the ovary are five 
large glands, two united and three free. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Receptacle with the tube of the corolla cut 
through vertically, so as to show the hypogynous glands ; the pistil and anthers, 
ete. 3. Ovarium and glands. 4. Stamen :—magnified. 
