else downy J/eaves, onesided bracteless spikes usually di- 
vided in the manner of a cyme. 
The present species was. introduced by Mr. Masson in 
1779 from the Canary Islands; but has never been repre- 
sented by any published figure. It is a greenhouse shrub of 
easy culture, rather straggling in its growth, but desirable 
on account of the exquisite scent of the blossom, the fra- 
gvance of which seems to us to partake of the flavour of the 
Violet and the Mignionette. 
Branches axillary, flexuose, green, round, rough-piled. 
Leaves widespread, long-lanceolate, deep green, rough- 
piled, shining, 3 inches long or more, an inch broad or less, 
subovate at the lower part, far-tapered at the upper: petiole 
several times shorter than the blade, channelled at the 
upper side. - Panicles bracteless, terminating the upper 
branches, dichotomously cymose, widespread,  flexuose, 
with a single sessile flower at the bottom of each fork; 
spikelets dichotomous, peduncled, recurved, with small 
nearset flowers facing one way in two rows, rachis (general 
stalk) close-pressedly villous. Calyx small, herbaceous, 
furred, campanulate, more than twice as short as the tube 
of the corolla, permanent, with taper-pointed segments, 
Corolla hypocrateriform, yellowish green, furred on the 
outside: tube straight, angularly cylindrical; faux wider, 
of a deep green, marked at the inside of the orifice with 5 
plaits that alternate with the segments: limb of a pale 
squalid yellow, stellately spread; in the bud state with 
the valvular ends of the segments bent as if broken inwards, 
in the expanded state taper-pointed, undulate and smooth 
on the inside. Anthers nearly sessile, brown, sagittately 
oblong, enclosed within the faux. Séyle columnar, cylin- 
drical, smooth, thickish: stigma peltately capitate, green, 
conical, villous, blunt, flat at the base: germen enclosed 
within the calyx, green, wrinkled, umbilicate, roundish, 
girded at the base by a yellow glandular disk. 
The drawing was taken in March 1819 at the nursery 
of Messrs. Whitley and Co. Fulham. 
