(three quarters of an inch across) four-parted, flat, in the bud imbri- 
cated and slightly convolute ; segments obovato-oblong, with a small 
mucro in the centre, from which a dark green streak passes for a little 
way along the back. SvTameEns in the throat of the corolla, alternate 
with the lobes, and becoming reflected between these. ANTHERS lin- 
ear, cleft at the base, pointed at the apex; filament short, attached to 
the back of the anther at the top of the notch; pollen granules mi- 
nute, rounded, white. PistrL more than twice as long as the tube of 
the corolla; stigma clavate, green, pubescent, the hairs being arranged 
in many vertical lines; style white, erect, filiform. GERMEN inferior, 
crowned with a small depressed disk, which is superior. 
_ Poputar anD GeEocGRaPHIcAL Notice. The genus Pavetta is 
very nearly allied to Ixora, and, in fact, its character differs from that 
of Ixora only by its much longer ose = agglutinated, not diverging, 
segments of the stigma, and according to Gertner in the structure of 
the fruit and the seed. By Lamarck git? Roxburgh, therefore, these 
genera have been united, and by other writers the species have been 
confused. The geographical distribution is nearly the same. We do 
not know whether either possess any of the valuable properties which 
belong to some of the natural order Cinchonacee. Roxburgh says 
the Indian species are used only for fuel. The present species isa 
native of Southern Africa. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CULTURE. The genus Pavetia 
has not the rich colouring of any species of [xora, but Pavetta Caffra, 
notwithstanding, is well deserving of cultivation, forming a very pretty 
compact shrub, and flowering annually in great profusion. Itisa 
species described by the younger Linneus, but introduced into culti- 
vation in Britain only a few years ago. We received it at the Bo- 
tanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Kew, in 1835, and have kept it in 
stove heat. It may be a recommendation to many to know 
that it flowers abundantly even when under a foot high, and never 
acquires, under proper management, the straggling growth which dis- 
figures some of the other species 
DerivaTIOn OF THE Names. 
Pavetta, the Malabar name for _ — of the genus. Carrra, from 
€ country in which this species is n. 
SyNonyMEs, 
PavETTA erent Lin. € Suppl. fot, Thunb. Prodro. 29. Willd. Sp. pl. 1, 
ies rs. Synops. 1, 131. mn and Schult. 3, 175. Spren. Sp. 1, 
BE is Candle, Pro Prodro. 4,491. Ecklon and Zeyher. Plant. Afric. Austral. 
364. Bot M 
Txora CAFFRA. Puree in Ecyclop, Method. Suppl, 3, 209, 
