If we regard the present plant as of the type that is to 
determine the genus Limoporum, it is clear that in con- 
formity with the standard now used in restricting the degrees 
of generic affinity, many species included by Dr. Swartz as 
congeners of the group, must fall to be considered as too 
widely anomalous to remain together within the same generic 
pale. . Accordingly we find that several of the species have 
been already removed, and formed into other genera.. Among 
these, the fine one by which the genus had been till of late 
the most familiarly exemplified in our gardens, viz. the Li- 
moporum (now Bretia) Tankervillice. We are not aware that 
any species, which would be now deemed a‘suitable generic 
associate for the subject of this article, has been ever intro- 
duced into our European collections before the present speci- 
men, which was received about four years ago through Dr. 
Roxburgh, from the East Indies, by Sir Abraham Hume, 
and cultivated in the hothouse at Wormleybury, a source 
from. which many rare and curious vegetables have been 
liberally distributed among the gardens of this country. 
The specimen which afforded our drawing, was sent to Mr. 
Edwards from thence, by the direction of the owner, in 
March last, and had bloomed at.the same period the three 
preceding years. The species was first observed by Thun- 
berg in Japan, near the port of Nagasaki, growing on hills 
among the bushes; and. is probably likewise a native of 
China. At some points it comes near to ArrRIpEs, of which 
a species has been given in a foregoing number of this pub- 
lication. 
_ A stiff-leaved herbaceous stoloniferous perennial, about 
three inches high, growing on the ground, not on trees as 
many of its kindred do. Root with thick horizontal undivided 
fibres. Leaves radical, about five, faleately distich, equitant, 
thickish, narrowly lorate, acuminate, folded into a deep 
‘closish channel, of an opaque green colour: stipules radical,. 
séyeral, membranous, withered, lanceolate, sheathing. Scupe 
radical, shorter than the leaves, stiff, green, angular, flexuose, 
about four-flowered.. lowers reversed, uprightly spiked, 
but being set at small distances from each other, owing to 
their length, they afford rather the appearance of a corymb 
than a spike, white, but as they fade turning to a tawny yel- 
low colour, about an inch and a half long, each with asphace-' 
lately: membranous. brown three-neryed. folding lanceolate’ 
