genus is chiefly West Indian, and consists of shrubby 
plants, with simple opposite leaves, sheathing intrafoliaceous 
membranous stipulas, and, copious, small, whitish, panicled 
or corymbose, axillary or terminal flowers. They are ge- 
nerally smooth, growing in dry bushy hilly places. Their 
qualities have not been much investigated, though the not 
very remote affinity of the genus to Cincuona, and its nearer 
approach to Correa, might induce a supposition of their 
not being altogether unimportant. Only two species, the 
astatica and herbacea, are mentioned in the Species Plan- 
tarum of Linnzeus, but the discoveries of Aublet and 
Swartz have enriched the genus, so that 39 species occur in 
Willdenow (since augmented, chiefly by the discoveries of 
Ruiz and Pavon, to 62 in the Synopsis Plantarum of Per- 
soon).” Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. | 
The plant before us seems to come near to citrifolia and 
glabrata; but still there are points in the samples and de- 
scriptions of both these that do not tally with the pre- 
sent: for instance, the leaves are called coriaceous in 
citrifolia, here they are membranaceous; in glabrata the 
leaves are termed ovate, here they are elliptical and equally 
tapered at both extremities. We have therefore separated 
our plant from them; but still doubt whether we may not 
have missed it in some other of the published species of this 
numerous genus. 
The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- 
yill in the King’s Road, where the plant is kept in the 
hothouse and flowers in December. It is believed to be 
native of the Brazils, and to have been now first intro- 
duced. 
Young branches deep dark green thickly speckled with 
small white even dots. Leaves distantly and decussately 
opposite elliptical, tapered at both ends, 3-6 inches long 
or more, twice narrower, furnished underneath at the 
axils of the nerves and midrib with a small cavity con- 
cealed by a pubescence growing from midrib and nerve. 
Stipules oblately ovate, sheathing, cleft into two lobes _(mi- 
treshaped), deciduous, much shorter than the petioles. 
Panicles thyrseform, repeatedly trichotomous, _brachiate, 
loose. Corolla small, hypocrateriform, greenish white ; 
tube membranous, longer than the limb, bearded like the 
filaments on the inside, segments of the limb green and 
thickened at the edge and tip. Stigma 2-lobed, clavately 
continuous, green; lobes ovately oblong, one rather less 
than the other. 
