‘however a fragrance to the foliage of that plant clearly not 
belonging to the present, where the foliage is entirely scent- 
less. We cannot help suspecting that Jacquin’s figure be- 
longs to grossularifolia, but that his description has been 
taken from a variety of fragrans (see vol. 4. 296 of this 
work), and that balsamica has arisen from some confusion 
between fragrans and grossularifolia. 
Grossularifolia differs from fragrans, in being a humbler 
and slenderer plant, with smaller scentless less conspicu- 
ously lobed leaves and one-flowered peduncles; the exterior 
calyx is also placed at a greater distance from the inner 
than in fragrans, and the lower part of the stamineous 
column is covered all the way to the base with a starry 
pubescence, which is not the case in fragrans, where the 
pubescence is only to be found just below the anthers. 
Grossularifolia is a hardy valuable greenhouse shrub; 
producing the summer through a profusion of rose-coloured 
blossom. It seeds freely; and is easily propagated by cut- 
tings. The seedling plants vary exceedingly in the size and 
even shape of their leaves, which are sometimes round and 
cordate at the base, at others tapered and cuneate. 
The drawing was taken from a plant about four feet 
high, with a brown woody stem about the thickness of a 
man’s thumb, and supposed to be about four or five years 
‘old; and which had been raised from seed in a cottage gar- 
den at Southampton. ~ 
