at the foot of each pedicel. Leaves obovate-cuneiform, 
uite entire, sub-glaucous, firm, veinless; it belongs to 
Jussrev’s natural order of Malpighia. a 
Native of the East Indies. Cultivated in the stove. It 
is uncertain when the plant was introduced into the Edin- 
burgh Botanic garden; but the original specimen has” 
flowered very freely in the stove for several years, and is’ 
now a shrub of more than six feet high. The species is 
very ornamental, and deserves to be much more generally 
cultivated. It has never produced fruit, but is readily” 
ag by cuttings. The drawing was taken by Mr 
YME, in June 1821. 1 
Dr. Grauam, professor of botany in the University of 
Edinburgh, to whom we are indebted for the above account 
and the drawing, would insert this genus in Monadelphia 
Decandria ; but as Persoon remarks that the filaments are. 
not always connected, we think it best to retain it in the 
—— where it has been inserted by all the systema’ iG 
writers. 4 
