(1810), gives no native country ; Alpli. De Candolle (1844) 

 cites the Caucasus, Imiretia, Canton, and India? It is 

 only comparatively recent authors who have recognized it 

 as indigenous in the Himalaya, where it is found at 

 elevations of seven thousand feet to eight thousand feet in 

 Kumaon, and three thousand feet to nine thousand feet 

 in Kashmir, whence, no doubt, it has spread under 

 cultivation, or in a semi-wild state westward to the 

 Mediterranean, and eastward to China. It is worthy of 

 remark that there is hardly any variation from pure 

 white or yellow in this large and widely diffused genus. 



J. Maingayi is a native of Penang, where it was found 

 hy the late accomplished botanist. Dr. A. C. Maingay, 

 who was killed when quelling an outbreak of prisoners at 

 Rangoon in 1869. The figure is from a plant ])resented 

 to the lloyal Gardens, Kew, by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. 

 of St. Albans, which flowered in a tropical house in Jnue, 

 1901. 



Descr. — A slender, scandent shrub, with pubescent 

 branchlets, cymes, and calyces. Leaves three to four 

 inches long, ovate-oblong or -lanceolate, acute or acumi- 

 nate, base acute, cuneate or rounded, dark green above, 

 pale beneath, nerves six to eight pairs ; petiole of upper 

 leaves short, of lower an inch long or more. Cymes 

 terminal, sessile, fascicled ; pedicels short, erect ; bracteoles 

 very small, linear. Calyx-tube about an eighth of an inch 

 long, sub-campanulate ; segments about twice as long, 

 lanceolate, erect. Corolla white; tube an inch long; 

 limb an incli and a half in diameter, segments eight to 

 ten, narrowly oblong, acuminate. Anthers linear-oblong, 

 apiculate. Style slender; stigmatic lobes linear. Fruit of 

 one dimidiate-oblong, one-seeded, dry carpel half an inch 

 long.— J. D.E. ^ 



Fig 1, calyx, style and stigma ; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, ovary -.-all enlarged ; 

 o, trait, of tlie nal. size. > » j 



