/ 
“ flayescens, unilocularis, 5-valvis, valvis lanceolatis acutis patentissimis. 
“* Sem. oblonga, subteretia, exiguo mucrone terminata, nitida, castanei 
« coloris, 4 maculd nigra superné notata, numero quidem naturali 10, sed 
< plerumque pauciora, dum quedam abortant, inclusa et involuta singula 
“in proprio glutine dulci fatuo et odore subnauseoso, quod forti frictione 
‘inter digitos abscedit. Istiusmodi lobi glutinosi sunt 10 contigui sed 
“* sejuncti, et facile ab invicém separantur haud alitér atque arilli in MALVIS. 
“« Hi qui semine carent superné et inferné corpusculum castaneum inclusum 
‘‘ habent; rudimentum opinor seminis. Medio fructhi ex receptaculo com- 
“‘ muni columna attollitur 5-sulcata pallidé flava apice 5-dentata et patula, 
“ cui Jobi glutinosi adhesére.” Jacq. frag. loc. cit. 
A species judiciously separated by Willdenow in his 
« Enumeratio” from hirsuta, with which it had been very 
generally confounded. 
_ Native of the Cape of Good Hope. The drawing was 
taken at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the King’s 
Road, Chelsea; where the plant flowers late in the autumn, 
and is kept in a warm greenhouse. 
The genus does not appear to be even yet satisfactorily 
combined, nor its limits clearly distinguished from Drospy- 
ROS, a species of which forms the subject of the preceding 
article. 
We have not met with the barren-flowered plant of pu- 
bescens; where perhaps the flowers and stamens are more 
numerous than in the present. We apprehend that plants 
of it are occasionally polygamous, bearing some flowers, 
with perfect stamens and pistils, as well as others with 
either only perfect stamens or else perfect pistils. The 
number of the parts of the pistils seems to vary much in the 
different species in the genus. 
An upright ascendingly branching shrub, three feet high 
or more, with a reddish brown bark: the tops of the 
branches and the branchlets villous, round, leafy, flower- 
bearing. Leaves obversely or obovately lanceolate, with a 
slight close-pressed nap on both sides, either obtuse or with 
a short point, long-tapered towards the petiole, shallowly 
revolute at the edge, shining above, opaque underneath, 
from one to three inches long or more; young ones silky 
soft with .a shorter point, old ones somewhat coriaceous, 
almost without a nap and haying a longer point. Frrrme- 
FLOWERED PLANT. Peduncles axillary, racemously disposed. 
