flowered every year, and-another at Bicton which throve so 
vigorously as to require severe pruning to keep it within 
bounds, At Kew it is grown in the Temperate House, but 
has never flowered satisfactorily, probably owing to its 
need for more direct sunlight than it there enjoys. The 
material for our figure was obtained from a specimen in the 
Botanic Garden of Trinity College, Dublin, with the history 
of which the name of Dr. Harvey, the well-known authority 
on the flora of South Africa, is inseparably associated, 
though, as Professor Dixon informs us, there is no 
particular record connected with the Dublin plant, which 
is grown in a cool greenhouse in the usual loam to which 
some peat has been added, and flowers every year. The 
flowers are fragrant. 
Descriprion.— Tree, evergreen, in conservatories 12-15 
ft. high, in a wild state up to 50 ft. high. Leaves opposite, 
Jong-petioled, unequally pinnate, up to 9 in. long, lateral 
leaflets 4 or 6, spathulate-oblong, terminal oblanceolate, 
acute at the apex, cuneate and narrowed into the petiolule 
at the base, 24-4 in. long, %-14 in. wide, glandular-serrate, 
coriaceous, glabrous, dark green and shining above, paler 
beneath ; petiolules short or very short; petioles 14-24 in. 
long, reddish; stipules spathulate, interpetiolar, enveloping 
the new shoots. Flowers in dense axillary racemes; 
pedicels about } in. long, clustered. Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes 
green, ovate, deciduous, imbricate, very small. Petals 5, 
yellowish, oblong, } in. long, obtuse, érose. Stamens 10, 
far exserted ; filaments flattened, 4 in. long; anthers small. 
Ovary glabrous, 2-celled ; styles 2, longer than the petals. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2and 8, stamens ; 4, pistil :—all enlarged. 
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