here by their whole length to the filament, nor have we obfcrved 

 that they afterwards feparate and remain attached to the ap- 

 pendages or ne&ary only; but they poffibly may ; and if ^o, and 

 the two diftinft lobes are really but one anther, the affinity of this 

 plant with the natural order of afclepicde<e, between which and the 

 liliace<e it is faid to be intermediate, will be the more ftriking. 

 Dr. Smith however refers it to the order of afparagi ; which 

 was alio the idea fuggefted to us. On the other hand, each 

 lobe appeared by its habit, in our eyes, to be a complete anther, 

 having a deep groove running down its middle, which feemed 

 to divide it into two diftinct cells ; but this appearance may have 

 been occafioned by the rolling in of the margins of the inverting 

 membrane. We found the pollen perfectly white, and fufpect. 

 that what Dr. Smith obferved had been (lained by the folution 

 of the containing integument. 



We have adopted the fpecific name of Persoox, which 

 avoids the impropriety, adverted to by Dr. Smith, of com- 

 pounding words of Greek and Latin. We prefume that it has 

 been afcertained that the plant here figured is really the fame 

 fpecies as has been defcribed and figured by Dr. Roxburgh, 

 although his reprefentation, as noticed by Dr. Smith, is in 

 feveral refpe&s different ; and in the dried fpecimens which we 

 have feen from the Eaft-Indies, the flowers, as in Dr. Rox- 

 burgh's figure, are hardly half the fize. 



This plant received its name in honour of Dr. Roxburgh, 

 Phyfician at Calcutta and fuperintendant of the Botanical Gar- 

 den there, whole botanical labours are well known in Europe, 

 although but a fmall proportion of them have as yet been pub- 

 lifhed. Through him we have become fcientifically acquainted 

 with a great number of the curious and ufelul produ&s of the 

 Eaft-Indies, many of which have long been in requeft for adorn- 

 ing our houfes, clothing, and feeding us; adding to the palatable- 

 nefs, perhaps to the falubrity, of our diet; and farni filing our 

 fhops with drugs, in high eftimaiion for the cure of many 

 difeafes. 



The flowers are not very fhewy, and when bruifed have a 

 difagreeable fmell, which Dr. Smith compares to rotten cheefe, 

 corrupted water, or the {linking morell ; but to us it appeared 

 to contain nothing putrid, but was naufeous and difgufting, like 

 that of the dwarf elder and fome night-fhades. 



Our drawing was made in the magnificent (love of the Com- 

 tefle de Vandes, at Bays-Water, where this and many more 

 curious and valuable tropical plants are cultivated in great per- 

 fection. Native of moilt vallies among the mountains on the 

 Coromandel Coaft. Requires the heat of the bark-ftove. Pro- 

 pagated by cuttings. Flowers from April to Auguti. Introduced 

 by the late Lady Amelia Hume. 



