petiole, above dark green and minutely scabrous, beneath 
paler, veined. Corymbs of flowers terminal, of a pale 
purplish or flesh colour, almost white. Peduncles much 
branched, pubescent, aud the pedicels bearing two or three 
linear bractee. Calyx persistent, short, with five, small 
acute teeth. Corolla salver-shaped: the tube long, curved ; 
limb of five, nearly equal, spreading lobes. Stamens four, 
inserted just within the mouth of the tube; two a little 
shorter, and reaching to twice the length of the tube of the 
corolla. Style a little shorter than the stamens: stigma 
acute. Berry glabrous, globose, included within the some- 
what enlarged calyx, yellowish, four-seeded. 
Discovered by Professor Boyer in waste and mountain- 
ous places about Tananarivou, the capital of the province 
of Emirne, in the interior of Madagascar. Seeds were com- 
municated by that gentleman and by C. Trxrair, Esq. to 
Mr. Barctay, at Bury Hill, in whose stove the plants pro- 
duced blossoms in the month of February, 1824. From 
these our drawing was made : but it is only fair to observe, 
that I have lately received from Mrs. Terrair a beautiful 
drawing of this plant, made in the Mauritius, from which it 
is evident, that the plant as it advances in age becomes 
Jarger in all its parts, especially in the leaves, which are 
twice or thrice the size of those here figured. | 
I have adopted the name communicated to Mr. Barciay 
along with the seeds, by Mr. Bogzr. , 
Fig. 1. Flower, 2, Fruit. 3. Section of the Fruit.—Magnified. 
