have not an opportunity of referring to either the figure or de- 
scription of Andrews), this plant does not coincide in all 
all points, for I find that there exist only eight (not ten), dis- 
tinct segments to the nectary ; the anther is linear, sessile and 
erect (not ovate, inflexed and slightly stalked), and the flowers, 
instead of possessing a musk-like smell, exhale a fragrance 
which may aptly be compared to that of the Jonquil. Perhaps 
the two plants may not belong to the same species, though the 
characters in all other respects correspond with each other. 
It seems to have been introduced into England from St 
Vincent's by Dr A. Anderson. The shrub from which the 
specimens here delineated were gathered, was sent to the Li- 
verpool Botanic Garden from the West Indies, and it has 
flowered there during the winter season, for several successive 
years. 
Fig. 1. Small clusters of flowers. Fig. 2. Back view of a flower. Fig. 3. 
Flower deprived of its calyx and corolla. Fig. 4. One of the nectarife- 
rous scales, with its anther. Fig. 5. Germen, shewing the fleshy ring 
at the base, from which the scales of the nectary are removed. Fig. 6. 
Section of the germen.-— ^i// more or less magnified. 
