Gilli ERES Order. É T: 
MONECIA  POLYANDRIA | 
This extraordinary plant was most libe- 
rally presented to us by Mrs. Beaumont, at 
whose magnificent garden at Bretton-Hall, 
in Yorkshire, it flowered in March last, 
probably for the first time in Europe. Mrs. 
Beaumont informed us that it was received 
by her from India, and it is not known to 
exist in any other collection in this country. 
According to the Hortus Bengalensis it is 
an erect shrub, a native of Pegu, and was 
introduced into the Calcutta garden by Dr. 
W. Carey, in 1809. 
The flower has a pleasant smell at a 
moderate distance, something resembling a 
melon, but prodigiously more intense, and 
when too near it is quite overpowering. 
The end of the spadix, for about three 
inches in length, is composed of a num- 
ber of closely-pressed irregular succulent 
masses: under these, for two inches, the 
stamens are placed: for two inches lower 
the spadix is surrounded by oblong pointed 
