cording to the Hortus Kewensis, of Cochinchina, China, 
Japan, and the South-Sea Islands. 
_ Our present variety has been supposed to be a distinct 
species, and has been called Garpenta latifolia; but it 
appears to us that it cannot be the latifolia of Roxpuren’s 
Coromandel plants, but a mere variety of G. florida, with 
more oval leaves and somewhat smaller flowers. 
The name of Garpenta was first given to this genus which 
belongs to the natural order of Rubiacea, by Mr. Exus, in 
honour of Dr. Garpen, formerly an eminent physician and 
naturalist at Charles-Town, South Carolina. 
With us it is an inhabitant of the stove, and is held in 
great estimation, both for its beauty and the extraordinary 
iragrance of its flowers. : 
Communicated by Messrs, Wurttey, Brame, and Mixyg, 
in June, 1822. —— 
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