being altogether a shrub of a more robust and stiff habit, 
with rough tomentose branches and broader leaves, the 
latter of an uniformly thicker texture—circumstances that 
have been remarked by Mr. Attan Cunninenam to con- 
tinue permanent in the plant, whether in its native woods, 
or the greenhouse at Kew. ‘The stigma, also, is fur- 
nished at its summit with a little pencil-like tuft, whereas 
that of A. Gynopogon, which has been lately most elabo- 
rately described by M. Enpticner, ‘in his Prodromus of 
the Flora of the island, is perfectly smooth. Living plants 
of this very distinct, Daphne-looking species, were intro- 
duced to the Royal Gardens by Mr. Cunnineuam, in 183], 
where they soon afterwards flowered, and produced green 
fruit. It is remarkably hardy, simply requiring protection 
from frost, and is readily propagated by cuttings. 
Descr. A low shrub, with many spreading, wavy, and 
rather stout, often opposite or verticillate branches. Leaves 
quaternate, rarely ternate, oval or obovate, patent, coria- 
ceous, yellowish-green, scarcely veiny. Flowers solitary, 
terminal, white; the tube yellowish, swollen above the 
middle: limb of five ovate, spreading, at length reflexed, 
oblique segments ; orifice contracted. Calyx small, brac- 
teated, five-partite, the segments appressed. Stamens small, 
inserted intothe swollen part of the tube. Filaments short, 
subulate, hairy: Anthers sagittate, deep orange. Germen 
roundish-oval, compressed, hairy at the base, with a longi- 
tudinal furrow on each side. Style much shorter than the 
corolla. Stigma capitate, yellowish. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx laid open, showing the Pistil. 3. Part of the 
Corolla laid open, showing the Stamens :—magnified, 
Mr. Arran Cunnincuam has kindly favored me with the following 
Synopsis of the different species of Atyxta. 
1. A. actinophylla ; corymbis simplicibus axillaribus pedunculatis, 
pedicellis 1—3-floris, calycibus ebracteatis, foliis quaternis senis octo- 
nisve verticillatis petiolatis elongato-lanceolatis glabris margine revo- 
- lutis subtus glaucis, venis obtusangulis parallelis, pedunculo dimidium 
folii equante, stigmate oblongo membranaceo imberbi, caule arbo- 
Tescenti, 
_ Has. In Australasia, ad oras tropicas; nempé Endeavour River, 
“supra littus orientale, necnon littora septentrionali-occidentalia, Mon- 
__tagu Sound, ete. 1620. A. Cunningham. (v. v.) bs AEs 
aca bo QA, 
