months continuously in India, should not be in common 
cultivation ; but it does not appear in the Hortus Kewensis, 
nor is it figured in any work published in England. For the 
specimen here described I am indebted to Messrs. Downie, 
Laird and Co., who sent it for naming in February 1874. 
Descr. A shrub or small tree, with opposite cylindric 
branches, the young shoots, leaves beneath and inflorescence, 
clothed with snow white or buff appressed or mealy tomentum. 
Leaves four to eight inches long, short-petioled, lanceolate 
or elongate-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire or serrulate ; 
nerves diverging ; upper surface glabrous. Racemes three to 
six inches long, axillary or terminal, or panicled, very 
slender, drooping ; bracts and bracteoles subulate ; flowers 
very shortly pedicelled, usually ternate, white, sweet-scented, 
of two forms, larger with spreading orbicular erose corolla 
lobes, smaller with erect lobes. Calyx shortly ovoid, 
4- rarely 5-lobea or -toothed, villous. Corolla-tubes two to 
four times the length of the calyx, villous ; limb with 
4- rarely 5 -spreading large, or ovate erect small lobes, mouth 
villous. Stamens inserted on the throat of the large corolla 
tube. Anthers oblong included. Ovary conical, narrowed 
into a short style with a thick 2 -fid stigma. Capsule ovoid, 
deflexed 2 -celled, 2-valved. Seeds numerous, imbricate, 
compressed, winged at both ends. — J. D . H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open, showing the ovary : — both enlarged. 
