Our figure was drawn from, a very fine healthy plant which 
flowered in the colle@ion of Lady Downs, at her villa of 
Bookham-Grove, near Leatherhead, in April 1799;. though 
not enumerated in the Hortus Kewenjis, it had produced blof- 
foms in feveral other colle€tions near town long before this 
period; thofe when they once expand are of fhort duration, 
but the foliage when healthy is always handfome. 
It is ufually kept in the ftove with other Jamaica plants, 
and propagated by layers. | ; 
We cannot fee the propriety of applying felis enerviis to 
the defcription of this fpecies, fince Linn us himfelf, in his 
Sp. Pl. defcribes the leaves as irinervia; three ftrong ribs 
they always have, and ufually two others near the margin 
which-are finer. ~ 22 g5t5= ee | BT ie 
