smooth. Sepals ovate, blunt, of a pale green, about three lines long, 
smooth. Corolla 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 again somewhat expanded ; limb spreading, above an inch di¬ 
ameter, the divisions oval, blunt, smooth on both sides as well as the whole 
corolla, with the exception of the inside of the tube, which is clothed 
■with reflexed hairs. Stamens and Pistil combined into a conical 
body, in the bottom of the tube of the corolla, about four lines long. 
Filaments 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. Ovaries two, enclosed within • 
the staminal tube, but not adhering to it, and distinct from each other, 
contracted into two very short styles, which support the large conical 
stigma to which the anthers adhere. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. Stephanotis is a Mada¬ 
gascar genus, of which three species only are hitherto known, all pro¬ 
bably 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 them much of the general appearance of an Echites, 
belonging to the Apocynaceae, but the structure of the stamina at once 
places them amongst Asclepiadacese, where they are allied to Pergularia, 
with some resemblance in the flower, but less in essential character, to 
the Brasilian Schubertia. 
Introduction; Where grown ; Culture. A plant of this species 
raised in the Botanic Garden, in the Isle of Bourbon, from Madagas¬ 
car 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 
umbels of white flowers. It should be potted in jieat and loam. 
Stephanotis, from aTE(pavoc, a crown, and wrig, derived from sg, an ear, in 
allusion to the auricles of the staminal crown, a meaning however which, if the 
rules of composition had been followed, ought to have been rendered by Oto- 
stephanos. Floribunda, many-flowered. 
Stephanotis floribunda . Adolphe Brogniar: Annales des Sciences Na- 
turelles, 2nd Serie Botanique, v, 7, p. 30. 
