We are unacquainted with its history ; it does not seem 

 to have been before described ; and we have not been able 

 to learn even its native country. In gardens it is called 

 Chironia trinervis, but it is a totally different plant from the 

 Ceylon species so named by Linnaeus, which appears to be a 

 genuine Exacum, as that genus is limited by Dr. Brown in 

 his Prodromus. 



The bitterness of the species is most remarkable, even 

 m ong its bitter neighbours. 



