Frutex caule, in caldario, simplici, 2-pedali, pollicem crasso fusco. Folia 

 pedalia v. bipedalia, atroviridia, rjlaherrima, pellucido-puncfata (puncfis in 

 folio morhio nunc opacis nicjerrimis). Spicse 1 v. 11 unciales, densissim^ 

 multijlorce, petiolis vix duplb longiores. Bractese subulatce, rigidcB. Calyx 

 tubulosus, apice 5-dentatus, dcntibus obtusis, incpqualibus, apice recurvis. 

 Petala 5, linearia, concava, apice patentia, ungvibus in tubum cylindraceum 

 calyce longiorcm co?inatis. Staminum urceoliis cylindricus, antheris 5, li- 

 neari-ovatis, bilocularibus, fertilibus, laciniis corollce alternis. Discus cylin- 

 draceus, carnosus, 5-dentatus, ovario longior. Ovarium 5-loculare. Stylus 

 unicus, urceolo staminum brevior. Stigma capitatum. Fructus quern vidi 

 constitit e cocco unico bivalvi monospermo chartaceo (fig;. \) ab endocarpio 

 cartilagineo joariter bivalvi (fig. 2) separabili, et coccis 4 minimis abortivis 

 ad basin (fig. 1, a). Semen solitarium, ascendens (fig. 3), hilo magna 

 suberoso endocarpio adhcerente (fig. 3, a, et fig. 4, a). Testa cartilaginea, c 

 regione hili dilatata, cava. Embryo curvus, quoad hilum transversus, exal- 

 biiminosus, radicula crassa, cylindraced, inferd, cotyledonibus corrugatis, com- 

 plicatis ; plumula conspicud. 



This most fragrant plant was sent to the Horticultural 

 Society from Rio Janeiro by the late Sir Henry Chamber- 

 layne. It grows in the stove, the constant heat of which is 

 indispensable to it, to the height of about two feet, and is 

 covered nearly to the bottom with its broad, deep green 

 leaves : its stem has no disposition to divide into branches, 

 so that it has hitherto not been increased. 



When in flower, the whole atmosphere of the hothouse 

 is perfumed as if with jasmines, and the period of blossoming 

 lasts some time. It thrives in a mixture of peat and loam, 

 in a pot plunged in a tanpit. The flowering season is 

 May. 



J. L. 



