It is a very handsome stove shrub, with long pendulous 

 fragrant flowers, changing from white to crimson through 

 pink ; and must be regarded as quite an acquisition to the 

 collections of plants requiring high temperature. 



It is a native of Cuba, whence Messrs. Loddiges imported 

 it, and with whom it flowered in August, 1840. 



Fig. 1. shews the stigma, and 2. a transverse section of the 

 ovary. 



It is propagated by either cuttings or layers, and likes 

 such a soil as loam, peat, leaf-mould, and sand. 



