smooth. Sepaus ovate, blunt, ofa pale green, about three lines long, 
smooth. Coro.za of a pure white, the tube about an inch long, rather 
swelled at the base, and gradually contracted to a little below the throat, 
which is egein somewhat expanded ; a Sprenoy — an inch di- 
ameter, the di 1 blunt, the whole 
corolla, with the exception of the inside of the tube, which is clothed 
with reflexed hairs. Stamens and Pistit combined into a conical 
body, in the bottom of the tube of the corolla, about four lines long. 
Fitaments thick and fleshy, forming a tube completely enclosing the 
ovary. STAMINAL CRowN formed of five oblong lanceolate membran- 
ous plates, blunt at the extremity, and shorter than the white broadly 
ovate membranes of the anthers. POLLEN-MAsSEs (within these mem- 
branes) erect, attached by their base. Ovartss two, enclosed within 
the stamina] tube, but not adhering to it, and distinct from each other, 
contracted into two very short styles, which support the large cone 
stigma to which the anthers adhere 
PoPuLAR AND GEOGRAPHICAL Noniek: Stephanotis i is a Mada- 
ae gascar genus, of which three species only are hitherto known, all pro- 
aly possessing the same fragrant white flowers as the species now 
figured, the only one as yet in European stoves. The size of the 
flowers gives — eeck of the general appearance of an Echites, 
places them amongs Betisciepicacens: where they are alliedto Pergularia, 
with some resemblance in the flower, but less i in essential nde of to 
the Brasilian Schubertia. 
“Intropuction; ; WHere Grown; Curture. A plant of this species 
raised in the Botanic Garden, in the Isle of Bourbon, from Madagas- 
ear seeds, was brought to Paris, by Mr. Belanger, several years since, 
and presented by him to the Jardin du Roi. It flowered there, for the 
first time, in May, 1834, and it is from thence, probably, that it has 
found its way into our collections. It makes a handsome appearance 
in the stove when properly trained to a pillar, trellis, or the rafter of 
. the house, its dark bright foliage contrasting finely with its large 
mbels of white flowers. It should be potted in peat and Joam. 
Srermaxomis, from oregavoc, a crown, and @ Greg, deriv ed from gc, an ear, in 
to the auricles of the staminal crown, a meaning however which, if the 
rules of composition had been followed, ought to have been been rendered by Oto- 
wered. 
stephanos, FLorrecnpa, many-flo 
TEPHANOTIS Besa . niar: Annales des Sciences Na- 
turelles, 2nd Séri 
