are furnished with several membranaceous slightly coloured 
scales, or a sort of stipules which are very deciduous. 
Lovreiro’s plant is said to be extremely bitter, and to 
taste and smell strong of the myrrh of the shops, and he 
questions whether that drug may not be the product of the 
same species; the leaves of our’s, when long chewed, dis- 
cover a bitter taste, but not durable, and we could per- 
ceive nothing resembling myrrh in smell or taste. 
Our drawing was taken at the Horticultural Society’s 
rden last February, from a plant sent from China, by 
oun Reeves, Esq. in the Orwell, Captain Linpsay, in 1821. 
We suppose it must be kept in the greenhouse or con- 
servatory. 
