nor had an opportunity of comparing it with rubra, we are 
not prepared to say in what respects the two differ beyond 
colour. However both Mr. Lambert and Mr. Donn his 
librarian, who have observed them while growing together 
in the hothouse, believe the two to be essentially distinct. 
We should observe, that the stalks of the inflorescence 
are described as smooth or bare in the bicolor of the Flora 
Peruviana; in our specimen they were slightly villous: or 
downy, the down being however very slightly attached and 
tender, probably deciduous? 
The blossom is delightfully fragrant. 
The shrub, or rather tree, is said to grow to the height. 
of about forty feet in its native place. The young wood 
abounds with a milky juice, is soft and pithy, 
Natiye of South America, 
