interior of Abyssinia in 1809-10 on behalf of the British 
Government. Dr. Robert Brown, who identified the 
plants collected by Salt, named this one P. congesta. Un- 
fortunately no description of the species was published 
at the time, and when the plant was met with again by 
Dr. Riippell, who found it on the way from Halei to Tem- 
ben in Abyssinia, it was in 1837 for the first time de- 
scribed by Fresenius from Riippell’s specimens as P. abys- 
sinica. In 1916 the plant was sent to Kew from Kam- 
paia in Uganda, where it is also wild, as a species of 
Clerodendron; for its introduction to ¢ultivatiom we are 
indebted to the Agricultural Department of the Govern- 
ment of Uganda. Nearly three years later it flowered in 
February, 1919, in a tropical house at Kew, and thus 
provided material for the preparation of our plate. It 
has thriven well under the conditions suitable for the 
Indian species of /zora and Pavetta, and had reached a 
height of six feet before it flowered. As in the case of 
the Indian species of Pavetta, the flowers of P. abyssinica 
are very fragrant. 
Description.—Shrub, 6-8 ft. high; twigs pale grey, villous at the joints. 
Leaves obovate-elliptic, bluntly acuminate, cuneate at the base, usually about 
6 in. long by 13 in. wide, but sometimes 9-10 in. long by 4 in. across, margin 
undulate, thinly papery, at first setulose but soon glabrous above, laxly hairy, 
especially on the nerves beneath; lateral nerves 12-14 on each side of the 
midrib which they leave at a wide angle, pale on both surfaces and raised 
beneath; petiole usually about ? in. long, but in large leaves 11 in. long, laxly 
hairy; stipules almost membranous, caducous, 2 in. long, long acuminate, 
densely villous on the inner ‘face. Inflorescence nearly sessile yet laxly 
flowered, including the far exserted styles about 5 in. across; pedicels about 
z in. long, glabrous. Calyx with a narrow cylindric tube } in. long, glabrous ; 
lobes 4, linear, } in. long, sparingly hairy or nearly glabrous. Corolla 
white; tube } in. long, glabrous outside, shortly hairy within; lobes 4, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, about 2 in. long. Anthers slightly exserted, green, } in. long, 
mucronate, Style 1} in, long, shortly and softly pubescent towards the tip 
‘which is stoutly 2-fid. Fruit black, shining, globose, about } in. across, 
crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes. 
Tas. 8838.—Fig. 1, part of lower surface of leaf; 2, flower; 3, calyx; 
4 and 5, anthers; 6, ovary; 7, upper portion of the style:—all enlarged. 
