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our stoves; and have created some perplexity among bota- 
nists as to their distinction. Three of these, viz. caribeunt 
Cfragrans of the 2d edit. of Hort. Kew.), amenum, and 
speciosum, have been correctly figured in Curtis’s Botanical 
Magazine; and we have now an opportunity of publishing 
the fourth, the one of the least frequent occurrence. This 
may be distinguished at first sight from the other three by 
a smaller flower, much slenderer in all the parts, and by a 
proportionately far broader foliage. Linnawus has made it a 
variety of amboinense in his second edition of the Species 
Plantarum, evidently from a very imperfect acquaintance 
with both; no two plants that can be included in the 
same genus being more widely and clearly distinct when | 
sufficiently known. Miller, by whom the present species 
was cultivated, has recorded it in the sixth and last quarto, 
edition of his Dictionary, by the name we have adopted ; 
but we do not find that it has since been received into any 
systematic enumeration of vegetables as a separate one. 
It approaches amanum (lately published in Redouté’s Li- 
liacées, tab. 413, by the name of fragrans) the nearest of 
any other; but still differs, beside the smallness of the 
flower and breadth of the foliage, by a tube that has no 
trace of an hexangular form, by a limb, that, instead of be- 
ing a third longer, is scarcely equal to the tube, and by a 
crown in which the interstamineous teeth are entire, and not 
bipartite. All the four species are very fragrant, and if 
kept constantly in the bark-bed will flower twice, and some- 
times even thrice a year. The figure we have adduced in 
the synonymy from the Botanist’s Repository, we formerly 
believed to belong to amenum, but now think that it has 
been more probably intended for ovatum; in truth, it is 
hard to say where it belongs. Ovatum, though of long 
standing, is far from a common plant in our collections; it 
is inferior, in point of ornament and fragrance, to the other 
three, especially to speciosum and caribeum, of which last a 
correct and characteristic figure has been very lately given 
in Willdenow’s “ Hortus berolinensis” (tab. 73). parse |: 
The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in 
the hothouse in Mr, Griffin’s garden at South Lambeth. 
The stem was about the length of the outer leaf, which was 
about one foot long and half of one broad. arena 
a The pistil freed from the corolla, 
