smooth, margin scabrous, more or less recurved. Petioles about 
three lines long. Stipules rather fleshy, whitish, scabrous, laciniate, 
lacinise glandular at the apex. Peduncles varying from one to two 
inches long, smooth. Pedicels about half as long. Bracts in 
pairs, those on the lower branches lanceolate, those on the upper ones 
subulate. Flowers white, paniculate. Corolla four-cleft, divisions 
ovate, acute, smooth. Stamens four, projecting a little beyond the 
corolla. Style cleft, longer than the stamens. Stigma globose. 
Capsule, when ripe, a bright and pleasing brown colour. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. The genus Oldenlandia, 
as before stated, does not afford plants of any striking beauty; but, 
although it cannot vie in that respect with others, it possesses recom¬ 
mendations which make it a favourite with many cultivators. Its 
pearly white flowers are innocently pleasing, they are produced in 
abundance, and continue all the year round without intermission. 
Its medicinal and other properties are of little importance, if we except 
Oldenlandia umbellata, which is said to be much cultivated by the 
natives of Coromandel, under the name of Chay or Chaya, for the use 
of the Madras dyers and calico printers; and is used for the same 
purposes as Madder is in this country; but it imparts a far superior 
colour, giving the beautiful red so much admired in the Madras 
cotton. 
The genus contains about forty species, which for the most part are 
inhabitants of the old world, three only being found in the new, 
of which our present plant is one. 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture. It was introduced 
in the year 1836, by the Birmingham Horticultural Society ; a plant 
having been obtained from M. Otto, of the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Berlin. It requires the temperature of the greenhouse, and may be 
propagated by cuttings of the young shoots, without the aid of a hand 
glass; and should be cultivated in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand. 
Derivation of the Name. 
Oldenlandia is a genus established by Linneus; the name of it having been 
adopted after the Danish botanist, Oldenland, who lived in the seventeenth 
century. 
