are favourite sweet-scented winter-blooming species. L. 
Standishii may, however, be readily distinguished from 
the present plant by its more precocious habit of flower- 
ing, its hairy branches and leaves—the latter being 
narrower and more pointed—and by its externally pilose 
corolla-tube. JL. fragrantissima is easily cultivated and 
is perfectly hardy, thriving well in rich loamy soil, and 
being readily propagated by cuttings placed in gentle 
heat, or even in a close unheated frame, during August. 
With the object of inducing its fragrant flowers to open 
sooner, and in order to preserve these from inclement 
weather, this shrub is sometimes grown against a wall. 
The plant from which the material for our figure has 
been prepared is an old denizen of the collection at Kew. 
It is a rounded bush about six feet high and over six 
feet in width which flowers every year from December 
to March. 
Descriprion.—Shru), with many branches ; twigs long, 
slightly grooved or angled, glabrous; internodes up to 
25 in. long. Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, unequally 
rounded at the base, apex sharply and abruptly mucro- 
nate, 13-3 in. long, 14-1} in. wide, entire, chartaceous, 
the margin sparingly setaceous-ciliate, glabrous on both 
surfaces, glaucous-green underneath, lateral nerves 5-6 
along each side, ascending, raised, branching towards 
the margin; petiole 1—} in. long, at first sparingly setose- 
hairy, ultimately glabrous. lowers white, axillary, 
geminate, peduncled; peduncles 1-2 in. long, acutely 
angled or almost winged, glabrous; bracts geminate, 
opposite, narrow lanceolate, acute, 1—! in. long, leaty, 
glabrous. Receptacles shortly connate at the base, ellip- 
soid-globose, very short. Calyx cupular, entire or with 
slightly undulate margin, very short, green. Corolla 
2-labiate; tube about + in. long, saccate at the base, 
ribbed and glabrous outside, hairy within; upper lip — 
4-lobed, the lobes rounded, } in. wide, striate and with — 
finely crenulate margin; lower lip entire, oblong-elliptic, 
rounded at the tip, # in. long, } in. wide, striate. Stamens 
exserted ; filaments unequal; anthers 1 in. long. Style 
exserted, glabrous, thickened at the tip, 2-lobulate. 
Fig. 1, flowers; 2, the same with corollas removed; 8 and 4, anthers:— 3 
all enlarged. ae 
