txora. tETRANORlA JfiOJfOGYNlA. SfiJ 



9. 1- acuminata. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves petioled, lanceolar, acuminate, smooth \ floral 

 pair stem-clasping, and broader. Co;'j/wAs super-decompound, raucli 

 crowded, and smooth. Ca/j/cine segments ensiform. 



A very charming shrubby species, a native of the forests near Sil- 

 het, M'here it blossoms during the hot season, aud perfumes the air 

 with the fragrance of its flowers. 



Addition bt/ N. W. 



The shrubs in the Botanic Garden have acquired a height of five 

 to six feet. — Bark scabrous, ash-colourtd. — Braiic/i/ets roundish, 

 smooth, pale. — Leaves lanceolate-oblong, acute at their base, from 

 six to eight inches long, from tw o to three broad, of laiher a thin but 

 firm texture, pale and glaucous, opaque, slightly bullute above, whitish 

 aud scabrous beneath, with copious, opposite, parallel nerves uniting 

 into sub-marginal arches; veins reticulated. — Pe^/o/ short, roundish. 

 — Floral pair of leaves smaller than the i est, ovate-oblong, rounded 

 at the base. — Stipules broad, triangular, acute, purplish. — Corymbs 

 large, sub-sessile, round, with sno\A-\vhite, most fragrant, crowd- 

 ed flowers. — Peduncles twice or tlirice tiichotonious, very short, pu- 

 bescent, with opposite linear-lanceolate bractes under each division. 

 — -Calyx ovate, with white lanceolate straight laciniae supported by 

 a pair of bractes. — Tube of the corol slender, an inch and a half long. 

 Lacinia spreading, ovate-oblong, obtuse^ with recurved sides ; mouth 

 surrounded with a series of silky long hairs. — Filaments redected 

 between the laciniae. — Anthers linear. — Stigma elevated above the 

 mouth, club-shaped, bifid. 



The opaque lemarkably pale and glaucous leaves, the sub-sessile 

 crowded corymbs of large white blossoms, with white calyces, suflici- 

 ently distinguish this elegant shrub from 1. barbata, R. and ail the 

 other species. 



10. l.parviflora. Vahl Symbol iii. p. il.t. 52. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 

 mild. i. 609. 



