Descr. Stem fhrubby, two or three feet high: branches 

 four-fided, twiggy, nodding, hairy, efpecially towards their 

 extremities. Leaves oppohte croffwife, lanceolate, equal in 

 length to the fpace between the two knots on the fame fide, 

 awl-fhaped, channelled above, ftriate and dotted underneath, 

 the upper ones hairy on the margins. Flowers axillary, folitary, 

 feffile, collected into a fpike near the extremity of the brancn, 

 looking to One fide, of a brickdufl-red colour in our fpecimen, 

 but varies with flowers paler and more inclined to yellow, 

 Braffes {Calyx of Retzius) two, firnilar to the leaves but 

 imaller, twice the length of the germen, perfiftent, defending 

 the feed after the flower is fallen off. Calyx none, except the 

 corolla is to be fo called. Corolla one-petaled, tube three or 

 four times longer than limb, funnel -fhaped, being more dilated 

 towards the top than ufual in this genus. Neclarium eight 

 glands in four pairs, yellow, half the length of the limb, con- 

 nected at their bafe into a flefhy red coloured ring inferted 

 into the mouth of the tube. Stamens four : anthers nearly 

 feflile a little below the mouth of the tube, oval, yellow. 

 Germen ovate : Jlyle half the length of the tube : Stigma capi' 

 tate hifpid. Fruit a fingle black feed enveloped in two cover- 

 ings, the outer one membranous, mining, iilvery brown, the 

 inner one firmer, brittle, of a bay colour. We fhould rather 

 call it a nut, than a dry berry. The flowers are very fragrant, 

 efpecially after funfet. 



A confiderable difficulty attends the fettling of the dif- 

 ferent fpecies of Struthiola. Linn.eus was acquainted 

 with only two fpecies, which he named virgata and erefla t and 

 diflinguiftied them by a fingle word to each, one being pu- 

 befcent the other fmooth. We have no doubt but that our 

 prefent plant is the pubefcens of Retzius, the longifiora of 

 Lamarck, and the Thymelaea quoted above from Burmann, 

 which laft fynonym is applied by Willdenow both to virgata 

 and erecla. It is alfo the fame fpecies with the S. virgata of 

 Dr. Smith, and probably of Thunberg, but not of h lii ' 



What we with Schreber and Smith call corolla, fome 

 authors call a calyx. That Jussieu fhould do fo is perfe&ty 

 confonant with his ideas upon this fubjeft, but why MuRRAy» 

 and after him Willdenow, fhould name this part the calyx in 

 Strvjthiola and the corolla in Daphne and Passerina we 



cannot underftand. The glands, which differ in number, form 



arrangement and cofour in the feveral fpecies of this genus, 



afford excellent fpecific characters. 



Flowers in May. Introduced, according to Donn, in 1800* 



May be propagated by cuttings or by feeds, which it ripens 



with us. Communicated by Mr. Loddiges, 



