For an opportunity of describing and examining the 

 original specimen from which the drawing was taken, we 

 are indebted to the same liberal friend of science, by whom 

 it had been carefully preserved and deposited in that cele- 

 brated herbarium, which, created solely for the advance- 

 ment of Botanical knowledge, at all times open, in the 

 most unrestrained manner, to those who would consult 

 it, has, for these reasons, conferred most essential benefit 

 upon the science it illustrates, and has given to its pos- 

 sessor a name that his contemporaries may envy, but which 

 posterity will respect. 



A stove plant, propagated with difficulty by cuttings. 

 Our drawing was made many years ago, from a plant that 

 flowered at Boyton, in July. 



Stems thick, fleshy, arborescent. Leaves oblong, flat at 

 the edge, quite smooth, acute at each end, often 8 inches 

 long and 2\ inches broad. Cymes collected in an umbellate 

 manner, upon a common peduncle, which is longer than the 

 petioles ; when young, covered with a very delicate, perish- 

 able down, afterwards becoming quite smooth. Flowers 

 exactly those of P. bicolor, except being destitute of 

 fragrance, and rather larger, with broader and rounder 

 segments. 



J. L. 



