America by himfelf. This excellent Botanift defcribes the 
flowers as being externally of a rofe colour ; but in our plant 
neither calyx. nor petals had any fuch ftain. This difference may 
however have arifen from cultivation: the deep purple of the 
under furface of the leaves, from want perhaps of {ufficient air 
and intenfity of light, did not, as defcribed by Pursu, extend to 
the peduncles ; but had that been the cafe, it is eafy to conceive 
that it might have alfo reached the outer fide of the calyx, aad 
even have been diffufed in a fainter tinge over the petals alfo. 
Mr. Pursu has expreffed a doubt, whether WittpENoW’s 
figure of odorata, in the Hortus Berolinenfis, may not belong to 
this variety. But, as he defcribes the veins as being depreffed, 
which in both varieties of cdora/a are prominent, his plant may 
perhaps have been our Nitipa. _ 
Native of North-America, in the neighbourhood of New- 
York, and may be prefumed of courfe to be perfeélly hardy ; but 
our fpecimen was flowered under a frame with the affiftance of 
artificial heat, 
