may be referred for an excellent account of the vegetation of 
those regions. The same gentleman’s paper on the Conifere 
of the north of India may be quoted as a model of its kind.” 
Duscr. A shrub six to eight feet high, branching from the 
base. Branches erect, supple, covered with pale papery bark. 
Leaves abundant, very bright green, coriaceous but flaccid, ellip- 
tical-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, more or less tapering into 
the thick, short, red footstalk, four to seven inches long: the 
young ones entirely, the older ones beneath only, clothed with 
dense, minute scales, which become ferruginous in age; the 
costa very prominent beneath, and deep red near the footstalk. 
Flowers invariably three at the extremity of the branches, 
spreading nearly horizontally in three directions, large, hand- 
some, fragrant, white, tinged with blush. Each short peduncle 
subtended by one or more large, loose, membranaceous dracteas. 
Calyz of five, short, unequal, rounded, erect Jodes, very squamu- 
lose. Corolla with the tube elongated, funnel-shaped ; the /iméd 
of five, large, rounded, scarcely acute, spreading lobes. Stamens 
eighteen to twenty, shorter than the corolla. Ovary oval, squa- 
mulose, ten-celled. Style longer than the stamens. Stigma 
very large, rayed. | 
Fig. 1. Stamina. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Section of ovary :—magnified. 
