Rosert Barciay, and thence to the Birmingham Botanic 
Garden, from which we received flowering specimens in 
May, 1833. The colour of the flowers is ofa greenish hue, 
partaking little of the fine purple so remarkable in drawings 
from living, native specimens. It is hardly necessary to say 
that it needs the protection of a warm greenhouse, and 
should be cultivated in soil containing a considerable pro- 
portion of peat. 
Descr. A low shrubby plant, glabrous throughout. 
Leaves alternate, coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, 
tapering at the base into a short petiole, costate and marked 
_ with a depressed line on each side the midrib, dark green 
above, pale and almost white beneath. Racemes terminal, 
and lateral. Calyx five-toothed. Corolla pale green, in- 
clining to purple, oblongo-ovate, tive- toothed, with a 
slightly contracted mouth. Stamens with subulate filaments : 
Anthers oblong, two-celled, each cell opening with a pore 
at the extremity. Germen five-lobed. Style shorter than 
the corolla. 
which took place the preceding year, our valued friend, as he himself in- 
formed us, seemed to have lost every earthly tie ; and, after a violent, but 
short illness of only five days, he breathed his last, on the 14th of July. In 
him science has to deplore one of her most ardent votaries, and society one 
of the best of men. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen :—magnified. 
