that though recorded as distinct by the best authority, by 
Jacquin, Haworrn, and in the Hortus Kewensis, may be 
thought by some to be only varieties of one species. 
The flowers of Srapetia barbata, smell less offensively 
than most of the other species ;. the corolla is smooth, pale, 
and of nearly a uniform colour ‘on the outside, except 
that the tube. is obscyrely streaked, but within the limb 
is roughened by raiséd spots, and’by scattered glandular, 
somewhat clubbed hairs. .The branches are straight, and 
have sometimes four, more frequéntly five, and now and 
then six angles, 
Native of the Cape of Good-Hope, whence it. was intro- 
duced into this country by Mr. Francis Masson in 1799. 
Flowers most part of the summer. Communicated by 
N. S. Hopson, Esq. from the Botanic Garden at Bury 
St. Edmunds. 7 : 
“phos F 
