A speciés not mentioned in the first edition of the 
Hortus Kewensis; but registered in Miller’s Dictionary 
which preceded that work, as one cultivated at the Chelsea 
Garden. Nothing, however, is there said of it but what has 
been borrowed from the Hortus Malabaricus; and we own 
we generally suspect the accuracy of Miller, who inspires 
little confidence as a critic, when we find him récording 
plants as cultivated by himself, which are not repeated in 
the nearly cotemporary edition of the Hortus Keéwensis. 
A rare and handsome evergreen shrub, belonging to the 
Cinchonace@, a division of the Rubiacee, lately ‘detached 
from the latter, and formed into a separate order, as sug- 
gested by Professor de Jussieu. Stem from 7 to 8 feet 
high, upright, oppositely branched. eaves coriaceous, 
remotely decussated, divaricate, 6 or 7 inches long, of a 
bright lively green, elongatedly lanceolate, subobovate, mo- 
‘derately petioled, ribbed, somewhat reflected at the edge, 
downy on the nerves at the under side; where while the 
leaf is young, the surface is spread over with a resinous 
or guminy varnish gradually extending itself with the 
growth of the leaf until it becomes scarcely perceptible; 
stipules 2, interpetiolar, sheathing, cuspidate. Blossom 
white, fading to yellow, small, exquisitely fragrant, axillary 
and terminal, corymbose, peduncles several-flowered, cy- 
mose, viscous, subvillous, lower opposite and axillary. 
Calyx shallowly campanulate, 4-5-8-parted with the alter- 
nate segments often twice the smallest, villous, continuous 
with the round green germen, which is capped by a thick 
discoid glandular process holding the style on an upper 
depressed plane. Corolla less than half an inch in depth, 
hypocrateriform; ‘ube shorter than the limb, closed just 
below the orifice by a narrow pubescent circle; limb 
reflectent, six-parted, not contorted, ciliate, smooth on 
the outside, bearded at the disk within, segments ovate- 
oblong. Stamens equal to the limb, reflectent; filaments 
several times shorter than the anthers, inserted at the mouth 
of the tube; anthers yellow, sagittately linear, mucronate, 
bursting inwards vertically. Style upright, short, round, 
forming with the stigma a continuous clavate shaft equal 
to the limb; stigma decagonally fluted with shallow mem- 
branous ridges and alternately wider grooves, pseudo-bilobed, 
a broad sunk seam marking its division into deep segments 
which do not come asunder. Previous to the expansion of 
