Pavon, a well-known genus of Orchidee ; but is, as far as we 
may venture to say without having seen the fruit, a true species 
of Crescentia. Its native country is still unknown ; but, judging 
from the habit of the plant, we think it must be Tropical Ame- 
rica. Crescentia macrophylla rust, on account of its fine foliage, 
rendering it what German gardeners term a “ Blattpflanze,” be 
regarded as a desirable acquisition to our hothouses, and we 
have no doubt that it will soon make its way into almost every 
horticultural establishment. 
Derscr. The largest of the plants cultivated. in the stoves of 
the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is about seven feet high; 
but we have received information that, in the Botanic Garden 
at Schéneberg, near Berlin, there are specimens growing which 
measure more than twelve feet in height, making it probable 
that this species attains the size of a tree. The petioles and 
young dranches are purple; and the Jeaves, which are alternate, 
‘simple, obovate-lancet, with a short acumen, and cuneate at the 
base, measure occasionally fifteen inches in length, and in the 
broadest part from two to three inches across. The peduncles, 
growing out of the old wood, are about one and a half inch, and 
the calyx one inch, long ; both calyx and corolla (the latter being 
greenish) are furnished with glandular dots. The sfy/e and the 
stamens are as long as the tube of the corolla. The ovary is uni- 
locular. The ripe fruit is still unknown. Seemann. 
Fig. 1. Lower portion of corolla, showing the four fertile stamens, and the 
one rudiment of the fifth. 2. Glandular dise surrounding the ovary, style, and 
stigma :—all slightly magnified. 
