long cultivated in the Isle of France, whence dried speci- 
mens were sent to Lamarck, from which the figure and — 
description in the Encyclopédie Méthodique were prepared. 
In the stove it attains the height of a man, and is — 
valued for the beauty of its leaves and the fragrance of — 
its flowers, which appear in the ends of the branches, in~ 
April. No means having been yet discovered of propa- 
gating it, it is one of the rarest plants in our Gardens, | 
two individuals only existing, as far as we know, in this — 
country. Of these, one is, we believe, in His Majetsy’s — 
Garden at Kew; the other is in possession of the Horti- 
cultural Society, to whom it was brought from China by — 
Mr. John Potts, in 1822. From this latter our drawing — 
was made. . tt 
From the Calcutta Catalogue, it appears to have been 
introduced into the Botanic Garden there, in 1811, by a 
Monsieur Jannet. 
This species is remarkable for the structure of its 
stamens, which are in number, 12, their filaments in all 
appearance perfectly simple, but their anthers double; 
that is to say, each filament supports two subulate, 
2-celled, perfectly constructed anthers, which do not stand 
right and left with respect to the axis of fructification, but 
are placed anteriorly and posteriorly,—a singular arrange-_ 
ment, which deserves attention, but which was not 
remarked by M. Desrousseaux in the article already 
alluded to in the French Encyclopedia. 
A. slightly branched shrub, or small tree, producing — 
scarcely any twigs. The branches are spreading, ash- 
coloured, and pubescent. The /eaves are alternate, oblong, 
acute at either end, with an undulated margin; they are — 
about 7 inches long and 3 broad, dark green on the upper 
surface, and on the lower shew a silky texture and golden 
lustre; their petioles are thick, half-round, and_ short. 
The flowers are dicecious, disposed in stalked bundles, 
each containing 5 or 7, and are very sweet-scented. The 
calyx is roundish, 4-parted, silky, and its footstalk is 
closely covered by imbricated, silky, closely pressed bractew. 
The corolla is monopetalous, somewhat urceolate, pale 
yellow, silky, with a revolute, 4-cleft limb, the segments 
