diameter about the root; branches straggling, long, forked, 
naked, thick, brittle, lactescent, smooth, scarred, full of 
pith, with the swollen appearance peculiar to the genus, 
ash-green-coloured, terminating in a shortly tapered obtuse 
point, surrounded by the foliage, from the centre of which 
the inflorescence is produced. Leaves deciduous, multi- 
farious, near, spreading, obovately lanceolate, acuminate, 
10-14 inches long, 3-4 broad, petiolate, of a bright deep- 
green, tapered towards the petiole, many-ribbed, nerves- 
from each side the rachis, opposite, bending forwards at 
the top where they inosculate and form a continuous line 
below the margin of the leaf. Flowers large, extremely 
fragrant, disposed in a loose many-flowered assurgent cyme, 
slow in evolving, and lasting in beauty for several months | 
together: peduncle robust, round, fleshy, green. Calya 
very small, obtuse. Corolla contorted, hypocrateriform, 
white with a yellow disk; limb nearly 3 inches across; seg- 
ments rather longer than the tube, distant, oblong, blunt, 
undulated near the base; tube of the diameter*of a small 
pen, hairy within down to the anthers, which are sessile 
below its middle, near the bottom: pisti/ equal to the sta~ 
mens. We missed the opportunity of inspecting the co- 
rolla for description, after Mr. Edwards had made the 
drawing. 3h 
There cannot be a more eligible ornament for a lofty hot- 
house. That, from which the figure was taken in July 
last, had been in Mr. Vere’s collection at Kensington Gore, 
for more than 23 years, and was about 14 feet high, but’ 
had been occasionally shortened on approaching the glass 
at the top of the stove. ‘The species was introduced by Sir 
Joseph Banks about 1790. o 
Willdenow has adduced the figure of it in the Hortus 
Malabaricus, as the probable synonym of P, obtusa, avery, 
distinct species from the West Indies. 
It should be kept constantly in the tan-bed. We be- — 
lieve it never blossoms here till of a considerable age.. 
Propagated by cuttings. New branches are produced by. 
the side of the inflorescence during the slow progress of its, 
evolution, which gives the peduncle the appearance of. 
being central instead of terminal. . 
Se 
a Calyx. & Stamens; as seen in the vertically dissected tube of the’ 
corolla. c Pistil. ; ; 
