pressed. Leaves opposite, on short, rounded petioles, oval, 
or oval-oblong, entire, somewhat acute and waved, coria- 
ceous, dark green and glabrous above, marked beneath, 
with several glands near the margin, and clothed with a 
beautiful golden-brown, satiny pubescence, as are the pe- 
tioles, which have moreover two lateral, green, convex 
glands near the extremity. Peduncles axillary, bearing an 
umbellated panicle, much shorter than the leaves. Calyx 
five-partite, clothed with rusty pubescence, and bearing 
eight large, oblong, bright-green, shining, prominent glands, 
Corolla of five petals, which are roundish-oval, minutely 
crenulate, unguiculate, orange-coloured, becoming deeper 
and almost red in age. Stamens ten, erect : filaments subu- 
late ; five alternately smaller ; anthers roundish, reflexed, 
black at the back, pale and almost white in front. Germen — 
ovate, clothed with dense, rusty hairs. Styles three, short, 
terete, green. 
For the opportunity of figuring this desirable inmate of 
the stove, with the rich and golden clothing to the under- 
side of its leaves, I am indebted to J. T. Mackay, Esq. ho 
sent it from the Dublin College Botanic Garden, in the 
early part of March, 1833. It is a native of Brazil and the 
Caraccas, and I have received splendid specimens from the 
late Rev. L. Gurtpine of St. Vincent’s. In the older state. 
of the plant, I find the glands to be obsolete, and thus, ex- 
cept in the larger terminal and leafy panicles, I do not see P 
how Mr. Linptey’s H. nitida, 8, differs as a species. 
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; Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Anther. 4, Pistil :—magnified. 
